PHP and Curl (CURLOPT_RANGE - not working)

Hi,

I'm trying to pull a remote page to retrieve some data from it and I'd
like to only grab a section of the site as opposed to retrieving the
entire document and then processing it (full file is about 19kb, i only
need about 5% of that data).

Now, I've found the CURLOPT_RANGE variable in php-doc but it doesnt
seem to do anything, I'm still getting the entire body of the page when
I run with it enabled. Here is a sample of my code:

function processURL($url){
$ch=curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RANGE, "0-4096");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return to var
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1); // dont hang
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); // allow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // time out after
3s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

$data = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

echo $data;
return $data;
}

It's only supposed to pull the first 4kb with that code, but I'm
getting the entire page. Am I missing something?

Thanks.
Ilya

.

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