Check The File Size of a Remote File

[alienator]

I need help with a little script to check a remote file preferably an mp3 on another server. For my mp3 site i would like to check if the file is life and what the size is.

Could someone please help me

[Anon]

If the server sends a Content-Length header, you can call fsockopen and sending a HEAD request for the file.

$host = "localhost";
$url = "/apache_pb.gif";

$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
socket_set_blocking($fp, TRUE);
fwrite($fp, "HEAD $url HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $host\r\n\r\n");
for($result = ""; !feof($fp); $result .= fread($fp, 10000000));
fclose($fp);

preg_match("/content-length:\s?(\d+)/i", $result, $match);
echo $match[1];