Size of file on the Internet using Java

Last Updated : 24 Mar, 2018

To get the size of file from server first you need to connect to the server using URL and HttpURLConnection Class. To get the size of file we use getContentLength() method. As the size of file can be too large we use BigInteger class. You cannot use integer datatype as it can generate an error in case the size of file is greater than 2Gb.
To know more about BigInteger class refer link: BigInteger class in Java
For HttpURLConnection refer link: Java.net.HttpURLConnection Class in Java

Java

// Java Program to calculate Size 
// of a file on the Internet. 
import java.math.BigInteger; 
import java.net.URL; 
import java.net.HttpURLConnection; 
  
public class SizeFile { 
      
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception 
    { 
        BigInteger size = new BigInteger("1"); 
  
        // get the url of web page 
        URL url = new URL( 
            "https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/GATE.pdf"); 
      
        // create a connection 
        HttpURLConnection conn; 
        try
        { 
                  
            // open stream to get size of page 
            conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection(); 
              
            // set request method. 
            conn.setRequestMethod("HEAD"); 
              
            // get the input stream of process 
            conn.getInputStream(); 
              
            // store size of file 
            size = BigInteger.valueOf(conn.getContentLength()); 
              
            // print the size of downloaded file 
            System.out.println("The Size of file is:" + 
                                       size + " bytes"); 
            conn.getInputStream().close(); 
        } 
        catch (Exception e) 
        { 
            System.out.println("Connection failed"); 
        } 
    } 
} 

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