Posted by Gordon Burditt on 02/26/06 10:18

>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.

Gordon L. Burditt

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