On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> It would be nice if there was an option with which you can set the maximum
> number of bytes to retrieve.
> E.g.:
> - do not get at all if too large (and exit with a special exit-value)

This is a feature mentioned in the TODO file that I'd like to see in a future
version.

> - only get maximum the number of selected bytes

I don't understand. Can't --range do this for you?

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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