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How do I check the filesize of a file on another server?

Dec 22nd, 2000 13:18
Ben Udall, Martin Akesson, Yvo SChaap, http://www.php.net/manual/function.fopen.php

It all depends on how you're accessing that other sever.  A file on a 
http server can be accessed with php, and the file size derived from 
that.  For example:
$fp = fopen('http://www.php.net', 'r');
$size = 0;
if ($fp) {
   while (!feof($fp))
      $size += strlen(fread($fp, 4096));
   fclose($fp);
}
echo 'file size is ' . $size  . ' bytes';
More details can be found in the php documentation for fopen() 
http://www.php.net/manual/function.fopen.php