On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, erazer wrote:

> Hi.. I wonder it's possible to parts of pages?. Lets say that I only want
> information located in first the 1024 bytes, and rest of the 400kb of the
> page are just junk? This will save me a lot of bandwitdh :)

> I found some information on this page
> http://www.zend.com/manual/function.curl-setopt.php

> I tried this function, which looked like the thing that I needed:
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RANGE, 0-1023);

That's how it works, yes.

> But too bad, I only found one page working with that: http://curl.haxx.se/ I
> tried with alot of other pages but noone works, just haxx.se. Why? Maybe
> there is another way to do it?

Servers may ignore the range header that this method uses.

You can of course also simply stop downloading the response body, but I don't
think the PHP/curl interface allows you to do that.

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