There's a server out there on the internet that hosts terabytes of data encapsulated in numerous 7zip (.7z) archives. Some, but not all, of this data is interesting to me. I only know which data is interesting if I can inspect the filenames in the archive.
Question: How can I retrieve the listing of a 7zip file from the remote HTTP server, without downloading the entire file first?
These archives range in size from a megabyte to a gigabyte, and I really don't want to waste time and bandwidth downloading an archive if it doesn't contain data that I can use.
Addendum: I thought of a rather circuitous solution tot he problem, but I can't stop thinking that there has to be an easier solution and that surely other people have faced (or will face) this same problem.