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Re: How to make TIdHTTP::Get() show it's current progress-state?

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:01
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<MR> wrote in message news:uaq2v1pj3n56hemn0hjimm4cpacb8rnibg@4ax.com...

> Is there a way to find out how many bytes to be read at all.

Yes, but not 100% reliably.  There is the TIdHTTP.Response.ContentLength
property, but it is only valid if the server reported the file's length
ahead of time.  Depending on how the file is being transferred internally
(chunked, compressed, etc), the file's length is not always available.


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