Question

I want to get the Content-Length value from the meta variable. I need to get the size of the file that I want to download. But the last line returns an error, HTTPMessage object has no attribute getheaders.

import urllib.request
import http.client

#----HTTP HANDLING PART----
 url = "http://client.akamai.com/install/test-objects/10MB.bin"

file_name = url.split('/')[-1]
d = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
f = open(file_name, 'wb')

#----GET FILE SIZE----
meta = d.info()

print ("Download Details", meta)
file_size = int(meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0])

Answer 1

It looks like you are using Python 3, and have read some code / documentation for Python 2.x. It is poorly documented, but there is no getheaders method in Python 3, but only a get_all method.

See this bug report.