curl: How to limit size of GET?

Question

I want to retrieve the first 10k bytes from a URL with curl (using PHP in my case). Is there a way to specify this? I thought CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE would do this, but it just a

Answer 1

If you use fread instead of curl, although I prefer curl, you can specify the size of the data you want to receive, for example:

$fp = @fopen($url, "r") ;

$data = "" ;
if($fp) {
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $data .= fread($fp, $size) ;
}
fclose($fp) ;