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

$html='';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 128);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, function($DownloadSize, $Downloaded, $UploadSize, $Uploaded){ return ($Downloaded > 10240) ? 1 : 0;});
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, 'write_function');
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $html;

function write_function($handle, $data) {
    global $html;
    $html .= $data;
    if (strlen($html) > 10240) {
        return 0;
    }
    else
        return strlen($data);
}