Another way:

using IO::Socket::INET.
This has the advantage to be more flexible.

I don't know what you are looking for in the first 512 bytes, but dependent on what you get you could parse the response and fetch more data if needed.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use IO::Socket::INET;
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => 'www.google.de',
                                 PeerPort => 'http(80)',
                                 Proto    => 'tcp');

die if ( !$sock );

print $sock "GET http://www.google.de/index.html\n";


my $len = 0;
my $file = '';

while ( defined($sock) && ( my $c = $sock->getc()) && ($len<512)){
        print $c,"\n\n";
        $len+=length $c;
        $file .= $c;
}

print $file;

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michael

In reply to Re: Downloading first X bytes of a file by misc
in thread Downloading first X bytes of a file by pc0019

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