On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Ram wrote:

> I tried retrieving the first 100 bytes of a website using the -r 0-100
> option but it gives the full content. It received the whole 120k of the
> page. The range option whatever be the value does not seem to work. Also
> given below is the verbose mode output of the request and curl version that
> i use.

Clearly the server doesn't support it.

A possibly improvement of curl would be to support "0-X" ranges manually for
this case and simply stop transferring at the right point.

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