note 73868 rejected from function.copy by bobby

Note Submitter: phpzmurf at yahoo dot com ---- hey, I got a litle problem... I wanted to add an option, that users can add pictures as url's but guz of the load speed I want the files to be In the same server as the site. it's very simple I just used copy('http://site/source.gif', "/home/user/files/$id.gif"); but how can i check the type and the size of the file... guz even file_exists() told me it cannot find the file...