diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/deciderules/NotExceedsDocumentLengthThresholdDecideRule.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/deciderules/NotExceedsDocumentLengthThresholdDecideRule.java
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+/*
+ *  This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
+ *
+ *  Licensed to the Internet Archive (IA) by one or more individual 
+ *  contributors. 
+ *
+ *  The IA licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.archive.modules.deciderules;
+
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
+import org.archive.modules.CrawlURI;
+
+/**
+ * Applies configured decision for URIs with content length less than a given
+ * treshold. Either examines HTTP header content length or actual downloaded
+ * content length and returns false for documents exceeding a given length
+ * treshold.
+ */
+public class NotExceedsDocumentLengthThresholdDecideRule
+extends PredicatedDecideRule {
+	
+
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8774160016195991876L;
+
+    private static final Logger logger = Logger.
+    	getLogger(NotExceedsDocumentLengthThresholdDecideRule.class.getName());
+    
+
+    /**
+     * Shall this rule be used as a midfetch rule? If true, this rule will
+     * determine content length based on HTTP header information, otherwise
+     * the size of the already downloaded content will be used.
+     */
+    {
+        setUseHeaderLength(true);
+    }
+    public boolean getUseHeaderLength() {
+        return (Boolean) kp.get("useHeaderLength");
+    }
+    public void setUseHeaderLength(boolean useHeaderLength) {
+        kp.put("useHeaderLength",useHeaderLength);
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Max content-length this filter will allow to pass through. If -1, 
+     * then no limit.
+     */
+    {
+        setContentLengthThreshold(-1L);
+    }
+    public long getContentLengthThreshold() {
+        return (Long) kp.get("contentLengthThreshold");
+    }
+    public void setContentLengthThreshold(long threshold) {
+        kp.put("contentLengthThreshold",threshold);
+    }
+
+    // Header predictor state constants
+    public static final int HEADER_PREDICTS_MISSING = -1;
+	
+    public NotExceedsDocumentLengthThresholdDecideRule() {
+    }
+    
+    protected boolean evaluate(CrawlURI curi) {
+        int contentlength = HEADER_PREDICTS_MISSING;
+
+        // filter used as midfetch filter
+        if (getUseHeaderLength()) {
+
+            if (curi.getHttpMethod() == null) {
+                // Missing header info, let pass
+                if (logger.isLoggable(Level.INFO)) {
+                    logger.info("Error: Missing HttpMethod object in "
+                            + "CrawlURI. " + curi.toString());
+                }
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            // Initially assume header info is missing
+            HttpMethod method = curi.getHttpMethod();
+
+            // get content-length
+            String newContentlength = null;
+            if (method.getResponseHeader("content-length") != null) {
+                newContentlength = method.getResponseHeader("content-length")
+                        .getValue();
+            }
+
+            if (newContentlength != null && newContentlength.length() > 0) {
+                try {
+                    contentlength = Integer.parseInt(newContentlength);
+                } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
+                    // Ignore.
+                }
+            }
+
+            // If no document length was reported or format was wrong,
+            // let pass
+            if (contentlength == HEADER_PREDICTS_MISSING) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        } else {
+            contentlength = (int) curi.getContentSize();
+        }
+        
+        return test(contentlength);
+    }
+    
+    
+    boolean test(int contentlength) {
+        return contentlength < getContentLengthThreshold();        
+    }
+}
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