Hmm, or use range as mentioned in my other mail.
If the server supports range requests you can set your headers to include--
Range: bytes=0-2000to get the first 2000 bytes.
or use curl with -r 0-2000 but i have yet to find a page that will return
only a range.
Apparently you can find out if
Hi Roger,
I don’t know who’s webpage is that you are
scraping, but if it is a third party’s webpage
make sure that you are not violating their
terms of agreement or infringing on their
copyright. You might want to ask for their
permission to do so, to make sure you are
safe and legal.
If it is y
I suppose one could use sockets and partial GET requests (using a range:
header), but i suspect it would be easier to just use an intermediary
server to handle things. To test, I set up an extremely simple page with
the following:
http://url.goes.here
put char 1 to 6000 of url tpage -- request
I have a webpage that I grab with LiveCode, then parse out what I need.
The data I keep is within the first 1/4th of the page.
Rather than loading the entire page into a variable or a browser object,
how can I load just the portion that I need and then stop the transmission
instead of wasting the
