Fsize remote file

Daveyz1983

How do u get the size of remote file?

i am using fopen("http://www.blabla.com");

After that when i try to fsize the file so that I can use fget and get the specific bytes, it returns error. Seems that fsize only can be used on locally resided files.

Anyone can help me?

I need to grab remote files.

iceiceboom

Haha, well it looks like I fudged again! 🙂
The below post is right.

drew010

The function filesize() works only on local files. To get the size of a remote file, use this code snippet:

<?php
$u = "http://www.your.url/file.zip";

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

$fp = fsockopen($host, 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 20); 
if(!$fp) { 
    echo("error"); 
    exit (); 
} else { 
    fputs($fp,"HEAD $u HTTP/1.1\r\n"); 
    fputs($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);

$split_head = explode("Content-Length: ",$ourhead);
$size = round(abs($split_head[1])/1024);
print $size;
?>

Credit goes to Samir Joni from a PHPBuilder post on 2000-12-20.

Daveyz1983

Splendid! Thank u very much ice(all the same) and drew 🙂