Filesize of www-file

[Anon]

Does anyone know how to get the filesize if a file located by e.g. http://www.somewhere.com/data.mpg in php4-language?? A want to check whether the file exists first!! (file_exists() does not work at strange files, only at local files)
Please help!
(It cannot be so difficult, is it?)

Thank you, Toni

[Anon]

okay, existing now solved by myself ("if, fopen check"). But the filesize??

[Anon]

Try this.

$url=parse_url($urlcheck);
$host=$url["host"];
$path=$url["path"];

$fp = fsockopen($host, 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 20);
if(!$fp) {
echo("error");
exit ();
}

else {
fputs($fp,"HEAD $urlcheck HTTP/1.1\r\n");
fputs($fp,"HOST: dummy\r\n");
fputs($fp,"Connection: close\r\n\r\n");

while (!feof($fp)) {
$ourhead = sprintf("%s%s", $ourhead, fgets ($fp,128));
}

fclose ($fp);
print $ourhead; //just to see the head

Just pull out the Size from the $ourhead