can anyone help?

I'm newbie here

function getFileSize(url, callback) {
        var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
        //get only header.
        request.open("HEAD", url, true);
        request.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if (this.readyState == this.DONE) {
                callback(parseInt(request.getResponseHeader("Content-Length")));
            }
        };
        request.send();
    }

Refused to get unsafe header "Content-Length"

that line gives me an error >> allback(parseInt(request.getResponseHeader("Content-Length"))); in console

can anyone help?

can anyone help?

I'm newbie here

function getFileSize(url, callback) {
        var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
        //get only header.
        request.open("HEAD", url, true);
        request.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if (this.readyState == this.DONE) {
                callback(parseInt(request.getResponseHeader("Content-Length")));
            }
        };
        request.send();
    }

Refused to get unsafe header "Content-Length"

that line gives me an error >> allback(parseInt(request.getResponseHeader("Content-Length"))); in console

can anyone help?

• javascript
• header
• http-headers
• xmlhttprequest

• there is no content/length to head requests anyway.... – dandavis Commented Sep 14, 2016 at 19:06
• Yes there is. Read here. w3/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.13 – arjabbar Commented Sep 14, 2016 at 19:46

1 Answer 1

Your JavaScript is fine. This is a CORS issue. You can learn more from this answer here.

If you can modify the headers at the source you need to include the Access-Control-Expose-Headers header. You can read more about that here.