Comments on snippet: 'Get Remote Filesize' http://snipplr.com Snipplr comments feed' en-us Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:07:20 GMT adulau said on 12/28/06 http://snipplr.com/view/29/get-remote-filesize/ Quite useful. In that example, you'll need curl compiled with PHP. Sometimes curl is not available, the same behavior could be achieved using a simple socket (fsockopen) connection in PHP. Using a HEAD request (fputs the corresponding request Headers) and get the value from the headers itself (matching Content-Length:) (as described in line 19. of the curl example). PHP 5 is including nifty function for HTTP connection handling and parsing the headers.

There is lengthy discussion about remote filesize on : http://be.php.net/function.filesize

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