On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Mohammad_Alsaleh <msal_at_tormail.org> wrote:
> Is there a simple clean way to only retrieve the headers of a GET reply
> and return without retrieving the data.

You can certainly set (1) a CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION that stores header
data, (2) a CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION that simply returns the number of
bytes sent in, and (3) CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION (with
CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS set to zero) to cancel after the body starts. Part
#3 is optional.

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