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charlesdavison
08-31-2005, 07:43 AM
Hi,

Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the length attribute in an RSS enclosure is?

As far as I can tell, aggregators seem to download the files OK even if it doesn't match the file size. Or is it used for download progress bars etc.?

i.e. is it critical that it's exactly correct?