http text-only request, possible?

[elger]

Hello,

For my webapp I'm parsing data from a profile site. For this I use Zend_Http_Client.

$client = new Zend_Http_Client('http://johnsmith.profile.site.com');			
$body = $client->request()->getBody();

After this I only need some textual information from the body.

The problem is that the request will load the whole site first (including images) before I can do anything with it. This makes the whole process slow.

Is there a way to make text-only requests?

[richie]

I don't think images get downloaded, unless it's being displayed in a browser.

One way to test it is to put two pages on a remote server. First page should be full of images, while the second page should be same as the first without the images. Now measure how long it takes to download each page.

[dougal85]

I'm almost 100% sure it only downloads the HTML and it wont download the images etc. unless as richie says you display it to the browser.

[elger]

Yes, ofcourse images are not downloaded. It took a long time so I thought that was it. With file_get_contents I can specify how many bytes to retrieve, so that'll speed things up.

Thanks,

Elger

[Weedpacket]

elger wrote:

I can specify how many bytes to retrieve, so that'll speed things up.

You can also do that by adding a "Range:" header to your request.