I was thinking of doing a head request with cURL, was wondering if this is the way to go?
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I was thinking of doing a head request with cURL, was wondering if this is the way to go?
Yes. Since the file is remote, you’re completely dependent on the value of the
Content-Lengthheader (unless you want to download the whole file). You’ll want tocurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true)andcurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true).