I utilize the Apache VFS library to access files on a remote server. Some files are symbolic links and when we get the file size of these files, it comes back as 80 bytes. I need to get the actual file size. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
Using commons-vfs2 version 2.1.
OS is Linux/Unix.
You did not say which protocol/provider you are using. However it most likely also does not matter: none of them implement symlink chasing as far as I know (besides local). You only get the size reported by the server for the actual directory entry.
VFS is a rather high level abstraction, if you want to commandeer a protocol client more specially, using commons-net or httpclient or whatever protocol you want to use gives you much more options.
