Get Filesize Question

[Titan85]

I am attempting to get the filesize of a file not in the same directory as the page I am trying to get it from. I get an error each time I try to do this, but when I put the file in the same directory, it works fine. Does filesize() not support an http://url type of path. If not, is there any way I will be able to get the filesize? Thanks in advance

[mburt]

It has to be in your server configuration. Type in phpinfo(); to see your specs.

[Titan85]

It has to be in your server configuration. Type in phpinfo(); to see your specs.What needs to be done? I have the specs, but have no idea what to do with the info. Only thing I see that could be an issue is "Virtual Directory Support: disabled". Could that be it?

[mburt]

"allow_url_fopen" has to be "on"

[Titan85]

"allow_url_fopen" has to be "on"Its set to on. Could it be something else?

[mburt]

Could you show the script? (I just tested filesize(), it returns in bytes) I'm not sure what could be wrong...

[mburt]

Nevermind... it doesn't work for me either. I think it doesn't accept the http protocol.

[mburt]

After thinking it over, if you have URL file-acces enabled, you can use this script:


echo strlen(file_get_contents("http://filename"));

Each letter is read as a byte.

[Twey]

Ugh, that's hideous.

Do a HEAD request for it and read off the Content-Length.

[Titan85]

Ugh, that's hideous.

Do a HEAD request for it and read off the Content-Length.How would I go about doing that?