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List:       httpclient-users
Subject:    Re: HttpContentTooLargeException??
From:       "stephen joseph butler" <stephen.butler () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-02-22 18:30:36
Message-ID: f107df20802221030w70b7257fi32c819907f419342 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Mike J. M. <mikemyers@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just spotted this in the docs, and I was wondering how to use this class.
>  Is it even being used by any current classes? I want to limit the size of a
>  download either before or during downloading. My code right now simply
>  downloads the whole file and THEN check the size. But that wouldn't work
>  right because if someone tries to download a file that's 100 MB then it'll
>  download the whole 100 MB, or timeout, whichever comes first, and then check
>  the size.
>  What's the smart way to limit file download sizes, or maybe in this case
>  response body sizes in HttpClient?

I guess you want commons-io ThresholdingOutputStream:

<http://commons.apache.org/io/api-release/org/apache/commons/io/output/ThresholdingOutputStream.html>

Then use IOUtils.copy(InputStream,OutputStream) to read the data from
method.getResponseBodyAsStream().

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