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function remotefilesize( $url ){
$size = get_headers( $url, 1 );
$size = $size[ "Content-Length" ];
return $size;
}

Anyway thanks a lot for the snippet..

// Set the url we’re requesting
curl_setopt($chGetSize, CURLOPT_URL, “http://www.example.com/file.exe”);

// Set a valid user agent
curl_setopt($chGetSize, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11″);

// Don’t output any response directly to the browser
curl_setopt($chGetSize, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

// Don’t return the header (we’ll use curl_getinfo();
curl_setopt($chGetSize, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

// Don’t download the body content
curl_setopt($chGetSize, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);

// Run the curl functions to process the request
$chGetSizeStore = curl_exec($chGetSize);
$chGetSizeError = curl_error($chGetSize);
$chGetSizeInfo = curl_getinfo($chGetSize);

// Close the connection
curl_close($chGetSize);// Print the file size in bytes

$size=$chGetSizeInfo['download_content_length'];

thx again !

foredownload.php?file=http://–.zip <- like that?

You don’t need to put full filters on this function, the filters should be added somewhere on your code to prevent bloating your functions.

Provided code is only an example on how to do things.

I read your website and this is different from the script that you reviewed.
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