Re: FW: looking for two remote functions

Tijnema ! wrote:

I'm not very familiar with PERL, so will this work with remote files? As it seems that you are just reading from local hard drive... Tijnema It has to be on the machine from which the pages are being served.

There have been several workable suggestions for different possibilities. I think it would help if you gave the context for this. Are these pages on your own web site? Are you downloading pages from third-party web sites using the browser? Are you using the command line to download pages from other servers? Here is a script which will get the headers for any file you can download from the web: <?php $fp = fsockopen("www.example.org", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n"; } else { $out = "HEAD http://www.example.org/any_page.html / HTTP/1.1\r\n"; $out .= "Host: www.example.org\r\n"; $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n"; fwrite($fp, $out); $header = ""; while (!feof($fp)) {

       $header .=  fgets($fp, 256);

} fclose($fp); echo $header; } ?> In response you will get the headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:57:54 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora) Last-Modified: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:00:03 GMT ETag: "10eb0036-4d1-3c2bbac0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1233 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 This includes the content-length, which is what you want. This script will download only the headers. You will not get a content-length headers for php files, since they are in effect scripts and their length is not know in advance. The same holds true for files which contain SSI. _____________________ Myron Turner http://www.room535.org http://www.bstatzero.org http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser/