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OK, this is a very old thread, but I looked at this thread when searching for some information on a related problem, and now that I've solved it I think it should be posted here since Googling "Perl CURLOPT_RANGE" doesn't currently return any useful hits.

OK, the bottom line is that if you want to fetch a piece of a remote file using Perl you can take the WWW:Curl package

http://search.cpan.org/~szbalint/WWW-Curl-4.15/lib/WWW/Curl.pm

and modify the first example to include the lines

my $firstbyte = 50;
my $lastbyte = 100;
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_RANGE,"$firstbyte-$lastbyte");
[download]

So the OP could use this technique to see whether, e.g. he's able to successfully fetch the 1,000,000th byte of a remote file. If he can fetch it, then he might decide not to try to download that file.

I hope that this info is useful to someone.

In reply to Re^2: Determining Content-Length when there is no Content-Length header by jae_63
in thread Determining Content-Length when there is no Content-Length header by hacker

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