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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: reading zip file
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Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I expect HTTP content length would give me the size of the zip file.
> I want to know the total size of the files in the zip file, which is
> what the updates to the progress bar would be based on.

Are you serious?  You'd download the 400MB zip file twice - once
just for measuring, and then again for the contents?

Are you sure, you cannot cache it locally on disk?
Are you sure you cannot request some kind of digest first,
that would just have nr of files and maybe total uncompressed
size?

Do you expect the download to be faster than saving the extracted
files on disk?