Get content length for a URL connection in Java

Description

The following code shows how to get content length for a URL connection.

Example


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import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {

    URL u = new URL("http://www.google.com");
    URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
    System.out.println("Content-length: " + uc.getContentLength());
  }

}

The code above generates the following result.





















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