php fopen fread images - php

Question

I am trying to tcp an image from my linux php ec2 instance to another server.
when i echo out the contents of fopen and fread i can see the image is processed but only halfway
Does anyonew know what is causing this please, thank you.
$imageURL = 'http://ec2-**-***-**-**.compute-1.amazonaws.com/New_Era_For_NASA_2.jpg';
$ch = curl_init($imageURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
//echo $data;
curl_close($ch);
if ($data === false) {
die('cURL failed');
}
if ( preg_match('/Content-length: (\d+)/', $data, $matches) || preg_match('/Content-Length: (\d+)/', $data, $matches) ) {
$size = (int)$matches[1];
}
$fileHandle = fopen($imageURL, 'rb'); //r or rb
$fileData = fread( $fileHandle, $size );
//echo $fileData;
fclose( $fileHandle );
$data = $fileData;
header('Content-type: image/jpeg');
echo $data;

Answer 1

Why fetch it twice? Curl could do the job in one step. i.e.
$imageURL = 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Tibia_insulaechorab_transparent.png/320px-Tibia_insulaechorab_transparent.png';
$ch = curl_init($imageURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
if ($data === false) {
die('cURL failed');
}
header('Content-Type: image/png');
header('Content-Length: ' . curl_getinfo( $ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD ) );
echo $data;

Answer 2

$imageURL = 'http://ec2-**-***-**-**.compute-1.amazonaws.com/New_Era_For_NASA_2.jpg';
$ch = curl_init($imageURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
echo $data;
curl_close($ch);
Would be enough
file_get_content( $imageURL );
Would work to0 but be aware of memory_limit, fread might be a better option.