$ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.spiegel.de/'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RANGE, '0-500'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); echo $result; /** *But as noted before if the server doesn't honor this header but sends the whole file curl will download all of it. E.g. http://www.111cn.net ignores the header. But you can (in addition) set a write function callback and abort the request when more data is received, e.g. * php 5.3+ only * use function writefn($ch, $chunk) { ... } for earlier versions */ $writefn = function($ch, $chunk) { static $data=''; static $limit = 500; // 500 bytes, it's only a test $len = strlen($data) + strlen($chunk); if ($len >= $limit ) { $data .= substr($chunk, 0, $limit-strlen($data)); echo strlen($data) , ' ', $data; return -1; } $data .= $chunk; return strlen($chunk); }; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.111cn.net/'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RANGE, '0-500'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, $writefn); $result = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); |