Size of a remote URL

[Copelandia Cyanescens]

Justin wrote...

> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&output=search&num=5&q=temp+filetype%3Adoc
> 
> Go to that URL.  The first two search results do not return a
> Content-Length Header.  Yet IE still knows how big they are somehow,

I don't mean to be contrary, but yes they do. So says the almighty
Ethereal...

Content-Length: 632832
Content-Length: 30720

Respectively, for the two links you suggested.

-- 
Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up
with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in;
ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns 
into Thomas *Fscking* Edison. 

                                 -- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon