in reply to LWP: Downloading First 2KB of an HTML File

add a Range header to your request.

$ GET -H 'Range: bytes=0-13' http://localhost/foo.html
<html>
<head>
$ GET -H 'Range: bytes=0-42' http://localhost/foo.html
<html>
<head>
<title>foo</title>
<meta http$

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