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 cant seem to get it to work....
Any suggestions?

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

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

 

[Darren66]

Ive been using the WinInet APIs to access the Internet and put files in the directory specifically: InternetConnect, InternetOpen, FtpPutFile. This all works fine.
But I couldnt find anything for determining the directory size. It seemed like it should be fairly simple, but its got me!

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

If youre 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