Retrieving date from remote file.

[maganv0x]

Yes I'm wondering if there is a way I can get the modification time of a remote file. To be specific I'm trying to retrieve the last modification time of this text file:

http://www.chessbrain.net/stats.txt

I'm needing to check the last modified date so I can check it against timestamps in my database. Thanks in advance.

[HalfaBee]

No you can't get the mod time of a remote file.
The only way would be to have a script on the other server that returned the time.

HalfaBee

[Weedpacket]

One thing you can try is to use fopen() to request the file, then look at $http_response_header or stream_register_wrapper() to examine the headers of the response. If the server has chose to include a last-modified header, you could use that.

The drawback is that the server doesn't have to supply such a header, and if the file is generated from a database when it is requested, it might give the time the request was made as the time the file was created or "modified".