Thanks Daniel!

And how do I do a http-get request with a fake referer and custom user-agent?
Care to post an example?

Regards
Fernando

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> > 1) Can I use libcurl to replace the "file_size" function and query the
> > remote file size?. how?
>
> (Please note that I'm not a PHP-dude, I'm talking from a general libcurl
> perspective here.)
>
> Yes, probably. If you use a HEAD request to the site with the JPEG, it'll
> return headers containing the size of the object.
>
> You make a HEAD request by using the CURLOPT_NOBODY option.
>
> > 2) How can I check if the remote file I'm querying exists (is a jpeg) or
> > instead the remote web server forwards me to the providers' 404 page?
>
> Sure. If you attempt to get it, you'll get a set of headers and a 404 code
> back if it doesn't exist. I'm not sure how much the PHP binding reflects
> this, but using the curl_easy_getinfo() you can get the HTTP code from the
> last request, or you can possibly use the CURLOPT_FAILONERROR option. Or
> simply parse the returned headers yourself.
>
> > 3) Anyone cares to post a "fake-referer" http-get, first checking if the
> > file exists and its size?
>
> Steps:
>
> 1. Set CURLOPT_REFERER to a suitable URL
> 2. do a HEAD
> 3. If the code is not 404, check the size
> 4. get the image.
>
> Not that I understand why you need to get the size first. You'll figure out
> how big the image is when you get it! ;-)
>
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