Question

I could use getimagesize() to validate an image, but the problem is what if the mischievous user puts a link to a 10GB random file then it would whack my production server’s bandwidth. How do I limit the filesize getimagesize() is getting? (eg. 5MB max image size)

PS: I did research before asking.

Answer 1

You can download the file separately, imposing a maximum size you wish to download:

function mygetimagesize($url, $max_size = -1)
{
        // create temporary file to store data from $url
        if (false === ($tmpfname = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), uniqid('mgis')))) {
                return false;
        }
        // open input and output
        if (false === ($in = fopen($url, 'rb')) || false === ($out = fopen($tmpfname, 'wb'))) {
                unlink($tmpfname);
                return false;
        }
        // copy at most $max_size bytes
        stream_copy_to_stream($in, $out, $max_size);

        // close input and output file
        fclose($in); fclose($out);

        // retrieve image information
        $info = getimagesize($tmpfname);

        // get rid of temporary file
        unlink($tmpfname);

        return $info;
}