Hi,

> I'm working on a small program that needs to know the size of a file before
> it is downloaded via HTTP. The header file for these files does contain
> this information, so i was wondering if it is possible to only receive the
> header without the rest of the data.
> If so, how is that done?

Try setting the CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION on your easy handle. Once you
get the Content-Length header, just return -1 from your function to
abort the transfer.

Regards,
Julien
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