Re: Access received headers from socket.http in storing sink

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> I wanted to show some progress when downloading big files with socket.http, 
> had some problems and made some changes.
> The main issue, I've had, is
>
> * How to access the received headers from within the storing sink?
>
> Main reason is, I need the "content-length" from the reply to calculate 
> progress.
> Other reasons could be the "filename" header, which you will need, when the 
> filename is not detectable from the url.

If you don't mind the extra connection, you can simply send
a HEAD request before the GET request. That will give you
the headers independently.

Regards,
Diego