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Asked: 2026-05-17T23:17:50+00:00

A small question concerning downloading xml files from a remote server. I am using

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A small question concerning downloading xml files from a remote server.
I am using curl to achieve this.

The information I need in those xml files are located in the first couple of lines of code.
Now my question is :

Is it possible to download only a portion ( or a defined amount of bytes ) from these xml files , so I only have the first (let’s say) 30 lines.

Those xml files are between 100 kb to 12 mb , so you understand that it would be more efficient to be able to minimize the bandwith of the curl request ( I’m talking about 1000 xml files a day at least ).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check out the –range option for cURL, which lets you do just that.

    For HTTP, this will require the remote server to honour HTTP/1.1 Range requests – for example, if you specify a range -r0-10 then the following header will be transmitted

    Range: bytes=0-10

    If server doesn’t want to honour that, it will return the entire file.

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