On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Shailesh N. Humbad wrote:

> Is it possible to make a partial HTTP request using Curl? This is when
> making an HTTP GET request a server that does not support the HTTP range
> option and does not return the file size in the HTTP headers, so the range
> and max-filesize options won't work.
>
> With fopen/fread, I can read a fixed number of bytes from the request and
> then close the file handle. I want to accomplish the same thing with curl,
> but can't find an option to do that. The option would allow me to read only
> up to X bytes from the response, and then forcibly close the connection.

I think the PHP binding to libcurl supports the write callback, and if that
resembles the "real" libcurl's function it can abort the download at any point
it deems necessary.

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