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in reply to Re^2: Downloading first X bytes of a file
in thread Downloading first X bytes of a file

Although I still didn't take a closer look into the http specs..

Seems to be interesting:
telnet www.google.de 80
GET http://www.google.de/ HTTP/1.0[RET]
Will return with headers.

while
GET http://www.google.de/ [RET]
Doesn't show up any http headers,
instead it just returns the file.