Thanks, will do. I also found out it will work on local files and or local url's but nothing outside the network, do you happen to know if getimagesize uses a different port. seems to be that the stream is lost once getimagesize is called, then no image information is returned. I think the host provider is looking into the logs and network settings.
Thanks again for your help.
I am not trying to contradict what you were saying, but I think getimagesize does not need GD to function. An example would be that I have a local machine with Apache for win32 and PHP 5.0 for win32 and no gd installed, when I run that same test file it returns the image array just fine, no matter where the image is. That said just trying to figure that one out, just curious. Anno also said it was not needed? So do you think is, I am guessing you do. No big deal just thought I would see if anybody knew something about it.