* Thus wrote Jay Blanchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> [snip]
> is it possible with PHP to download and open a remote tar.gz file?? I
> read
> in the manual that it is, but it never seems to work for me.
>
> I tried opening the file with fopen
> fopen("zlib://http://www.site.com/update.tar.gz";, "r");
> but it didnt work
>
> Then I tried using the zlib functions but they just returned garbage. I
> think it might have something to do with it not being able to handle
> ".tar"
> [/snip]
>
> See http://www.php.net/zlib and try $compFile = gzopen("foo.tar.gz"),
> "r");
The only problem with this is that he'll result with a tar file.
Curt
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