Knowing the file size before fetching the content can drastically improve the user experience and save bandwidth.
Image urls returned from the /api/image
endpoint don’t allow HEAD requests.
As described on MDN, the HTTP HEAD Method can be used to do that. It will return the content-length:
MDN Web DocsUnfortunately the images served from S3 only allow GET requests.
Feature request
Allow HEAD requests on the S3 image URLs
Reproduction: