Decent remote filesize option

[kasuals]

I have gone over my options, and thus far have not found an option for snagging the remote filesize of a webpage. I can grab google.com, but anything that needs to be processed (ie php) comes back as 0 bytes.

I need to find the size of a file for hourly checksums, and hopefully someone can give me an idea of which way to go with this.

Thanks in advance.

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[sleipnir214]

It's hard to comment without knowing what you've already tried.

You can use PHP's cURL functions to fetch a webpage into a variable. Once the page is fetched, the function curl_getinfo() can tell you all kinds of interesting things about the page and your connection to it.

You could use file_get_contents() with a URL to fetch the page and store it in a string. Then use PHP's string functions to see the size of what is sent.



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[kasuals]

I've tried busting the size out of the headers, which only really works for images and static content.

I think I'll give the file_get_contents(), and give that a shot.

Thanks as always sleip, you always come through for me. Even if it doesn't work out, I appreciate your response. You've pulled me out of alot of writers-blocks. =]

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- "Delightfully confusing..." raves The New York Times

-kas