On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 11:29:31PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> What exactly is that command line doing HTTP-wise? Is it "just"
> asking for the first 512 bytes from that URL?

In answer to this: yes it should fetch the first 512 bytes
using some sort of HTTP byte-range request.

Rich.

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