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Re: CURL plain text content without images or flash movies

From: Richard Lynch <ceo_at_l-i-e.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:36:28 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, December 28, 2007 5:28 am, Joe wrote:
> I need to CURL a website with some important plain text information
> but
> it also has a lot of useless longloading images and flash movies on it
> which I really do not need. To reduce load on my server and also on
> the
> server I am CURLing to, I am searching for a way to CURL just for the
> plain text source code of the website and to avoid CURLing for the
> useless images and flash movies also on this site.

You'll have to do extra work to GET the movies and images, actually...

So cURL does what you want, out of the box. :-)

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Received on 2008-01-02