How much bandwidth do I generate to destination web site with my curl code?

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I use this function to load some source from another web site.

 function getWebPageSourceCurl($url) { $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0'); $content = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); return $content; }

How much bandwidth do I generate to destination web site? When I call this function does server also load images or just source code.

Adam Casey · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-31 17:18:29Z

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This will only load the $url (presumably just the static/dynamic outputted HTML) specified, the amount of bandwidth will depend entirely on how big the page is. It's impossible to say.

answered Mar 31, 2011 at 17:18

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Vladimir Markovic Over a year ago

Tnx for fast replay. for example if this is page (and image is 2MB) <pre> <img src="image.jpg" /> </pre> and when i load this page is generated bandwith only length of html source (couple of bytes in this example) or html + img size

Adam Casey Over a year ago

Just the few bytes of the HTML. It won't automatically open a new connection and download images etc

Vladimir Markovic Over a year ago

Tnx Dotmister, i just make test to be sure and apache acces log show that only html file is loaded.

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