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Posted by Steve on 02/26/06 11:20
> >I need to obtain the filesize of a file thats not on the same server. As
> >filesize() need a realpath and not a url how else can this be done?
>
> Fetch the file and look at the size of it?
>
> How *can* you access this file? Some FTP servers will provide the
> file size if you ask them nicely. HTTP doesn't (unless you get the
> file too). And if it's dynamic content, it might be a different
> size every time you fetch it.
Hmm, could you make a HEAD request? That has a content size header,
although I don't know if you'd have to factor in the size of the header
itself and whether any encoding is used.
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Steve
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