getimagesize() limiting file size for remote URL - php

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;
}

Answer 2

You don't want to do something like getimagesize('http://example.com') to begin with, since this will download the image once, check the size, then discard the downloaded image data. That's a real waste of bandwidth.
So, separate the download process from the checking of the image size. For example, use fopen to open the image URL, read little by little and write it to a temporary file, keeping count of how much you have read. Once you cross 5MB and are still not finished reading, you stop and reject the image.
You could try to read the HTTP Content-Size header before starting the actual download to weed out obviously large files, but you cannot rely on it, since it can be spoofed or omitted.

Answer 3

Here is an example, you need to make some change to fit your requirement.
function getimagesize_limit($url, $limit)
{
global $phpbb_root_path;
$tmpfilename = tempnam($phpbb_root_path . 'store/', unique_id() . '-');
$fp = fopen($url, 'r');
if (!$fp) return false;
$tmpfile = fopen($tmpfilename, 'w');
$size = 0;
while (!feof($fp) && $size<$limit)
{
$content = fread($fp, 8192);
$size += 8192; fwrite($tmpfile, $content);
}
fclose($fp);
fclose($tmpfile);
$is = getimagesize($tmpfilename);
unlink($tmpfilename);
return $is;
}