Determine filesize through JS

Answer for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16876804/getting-image-urls-file-size-of-remotely-loaded-images

by jessehenn

JavaScript

var largeImage = "http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/49000/49684/rikuzentakata_ast_2011073_lrg.jpg";
var smallImage = "http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/81000/81258/kamchatka_amo_2013143_tn.jpg";
var urls = [largeImage, smallImage];
var maxSize = 5000000;

$.each(urls, function(index, value) {
    conditionalMarkupUpdater(value, maxSize);
});

var onShouldBeViewable = function () {
    alert('This is a small image...Display it.');
};

var onShouldNotBeViewable = function () {
    alert('This is a large image...Only provide the url.');
};

var onError = function() {
    alert('There was an error...likely because of CORS issues see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3102819/chrome-disable-same-origin-policy and http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/05/25/cross-domain-ajax-with-cross-origin-resource-sharing/"');
};

function checkSize(url) {
    var sizeChecker = new jQuery.Deferred();

    var onSuccess = function (data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
        var length = jqXHR.getResponseHeader('Content-Length');
        if (!length) {
            sizeChecker.reject("No size given");
        } else {
            sizeChecker.resolve(parseInt(length));
        }
    };

    var onFailure = function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        sizeChecker.reject("Request failed");
    };

    $.when($.ajax({
        type: "HEAD",
        url: url
    })).then(onSuccess, onFailure);

    return sizeChecker.promise();
};

function conditionalMarkupUpdater(url, maxSize) {
    $.when(checkSize(url)).then(

    function (size) {
        if (size <= maxSize) {
            onShouldBeViewable();
        } else {
            onShouldNotBeViewable();
        }
    },

    function (status) {
        onError();
    })
};