Re: fopen wierdness

Technically yes. In an HTTP session, the server returns a header "Content-length" which lists the more or less exact size of the file being sent. But there isn't really an easy way of reading HTTP headers in php, yet. I really wish there were. You can use fsockopen to make your own http session, and you may be able to use the CURL functions. But I really haven't a clue how, as I haven't yet had the time to play with them much. Maybe if it works, that's an easy way to do it... -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. "Jerry" <bonnej@Prairie.lakes.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0104051949450.15206-100000@Prairie.lakes.com... > acutally i found my problem, what was happening was that script1 that was > on the server that file resides had that file open at the same time that > scirpt2 was trying to open via http, when i change that files name, the > permissions changed, and script1 was unable to open the file, and so > script2 was able to :p my bad. > > but it leads me to another question, is there a way to get the file size > of something opened via httpd? > > > Jerry Bonner > Systems Analyst / Web Development > --------------------------------- > email: [bonnej@prairie.lakes.com] > icq : [34572902] > phone: [507.344.1514] > fax : [507.385.6017] > --------------------------------- > Prairie Lakes Internet > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Steve Werby wrote: > > > "Jerry" <bonnej@Prairie.lakes.com> wrote: > > > im trying to fopen a url with something like to following : > > > > > > fopen("something.com/something.txt", r); > > > > > > this returns a "0" > > > > If you're trying to open an external file make sure you prepend the URL with > > 'http://'. If that's a local file and > > it's not finding the file, make sure > > the path is correct. > > > > > now when i rename the doc to something.htm, ill get the contents? > > > > Which document - the one being called by fopen() or the one containing the > > PHP script? > > > > -- > > Steve Werby > > President, Befriend Internet Services LLC > > http://www.befriend.com/ > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >