On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Gautam Mani wrote:

> Well, the feature is to avoid transferring anything unless required. In the
> case of my software, it needs to have a maximum limit to avoid downloading
> files beyond that. I can also think of a wget like usecase for which
> something like this might be useful.

Thanks for being patient with me even though I didn't read your suggestion
properly. Yes, I can see the point in having this kind of option.

> Basically, it is about giving the flexibility to the caller to specify some
> conditions under which libcurl will not download the resource. Since there
> is no other way for the caller to find this out without downloading the
> resource, it is a very useful feature.

Would you be capable of adding this feature and provide a patch for us?

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