get file size before downloading using HTTP header not matching with one retrieved from urlopen
why is the content-lenght different in case of using requests and urlopen(url).info() >>> url = 'http://pymotw.com/2/urllib/index.html' >>> requests.head(url).headers.get('content-length', None) '8176' >>> urllib.urlopen(url).info()['content-length'] '38227' >>> len(requests.get(url).content) 38274 I was going to make a check for size of file in bytes to split the buffer to multiple threads based on Range in urllib2 but if I do not have the actual size of file in bytes it won't work.. only len(requests.get(url).content) gives 38274 which is closest but still not correct and moreover it is