Finding the size of an online directory

[Darren66]

I want to find the size of a directory which I know will have no subdirectories. On my local machine the following works fine:

Imports System.IO

Public Function DirSize() As Integer
       Dim d As New DirectoryInfo("c:\Darren")
       Dim Size As Long = 0
       Dim fis As FileInfo() = d.GetFiles()
       Dim fi As FileInfo
       For Each fi In fis
           Size += fi.Length
       Next fi
       Return Size
End Function

However what I really need is to find the size of a directory that resides on the internet and I can't seem to get it to work....

Any suggestions?

[PlausiblyDamp]

How are you trying to access the remote directory? Any code written so far?

[Darren66]

I've been using the WinInet API's to access the Internet and put files in the directory specifically: InternetConnect, InternetOpen, FtpPutFile. This all works fine.

But I couldn't find anything for determining the directory size. It seemed like it should be fairly simple, but it's got me!

[PlausiblyDamp]

If you're using .Net then System.Net will give you a lot of features without having to delve into APIs.

 

The following article on codeproject may help (In C# though)

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/FTP.asp