Access File Properties From Blob Storage

Question

I am working on a Silverlight project that stores file downloads on a secure Blob.  I have a shared access signature that I'm passing to Silverlight so that the files can be accessed.

Since these are large files, I want to pull the file size info from blob storage and display that on th download link.  Is there a way to do that from within Silverlight?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi there - thanks for your question.

Yes, this is possible.  Do an HTTP HEAD request and check the x-ms-blob-content-length header that is returned.  It will include the size of the blob in bytes.  As a HEAD request, it will also not return all the contents.

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-Jeff

Answer 2

Hi Jeff,

Wen i followed the above procedure i get a forbidden error 403 error..

how to get the blob content length when the uri is in (blob ur + shared access signature) format