On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Oleg Lomaka wrote:

> I've tried this. But in this case curl will stop transfer not after 2048
> bytes will be received, but when pipe will be closed and it can't write
> there next part of data. For example when i use --max-hard-filesize, curl
> gets 2353 bytes, using head - 4111.

Then I'd suggest:

  curl --range "0-2047" [URL] | head -c 2048

... since that would make range-accepting servers only provide the amount
you're interested in, and only the ones that aren't acknowledging Range: will
provide more and let head cut it. Mostly since this is possible to do with a
non-patched curl.

The 2353 vs 4111 will of course vary greatly between operating systems,
networks and servers.

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