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48 <p class="level0"><a name="NAME"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">NAME</h2>
49 <p class="level0">CURLOPT_NOBODY - do the download request without getting the body <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SYNOPSIS</h2>
50 <p class="level0">#include <curl/curl.h>
51 <p class="level0">CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_NOBODY, long opt); <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DESCRIPTION</h2>
52 <p class="level0">A long parameter set to 1 tells libcurl to not include the body-part in the output when doing what would otherwise be a download. For HTTP(S), this makes libcurl do a HEAD request. For most other protocols it means just not asking to transfer the body data.
53 <p class="level0">Enabling this option means asking for a download but without a body. <a name="DEFAULT"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">DEFAULT</h2>
54 <p class="level0">0, the body is transferred <a name="PROTOCOLS"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">PROTOCOLS</h2>
55 <p class="level0">Most <a name="EXAMPLE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">EXAMPLE</h2>
56 <p class="level0"><pre>
57 <p class="level0">curl = curl_easy_init();
59 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "<a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>");
60 <p class="level0"> /* get us the resource without a body! */
61 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 1L);
62 <p class="level0"> /* Perform the request */
63 curl_easy_perform(curl);
67 <p class="level0"><a name="AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">AVAILABILITY</h2>
68 <p class="level0">Always <a name="RETURN"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">RETURN VALUE</h2>
69 <p class="level0">Returns CURLE_OK <a name="SEE"></a><h2 class="nroffsh">SEE ALSO</h2>
70 <p class="level0"><a Class="manpage" href="./CURLOPT_HTTPGET.html">CURLOPT_HTTPGET</a>, <a Class="manpage" href="./CURLOPT_POST.html">CURLOPT_POST</a>, <span Class="manpage"> </span> <p class="roffit">
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