[UGLY HACK] Proof of concept multipart/byteranges support and connection sharing

[Martin Pool]

On 23 May 2006, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> >No, you should be able to do
> >
> >  curl.setopt(pycurl.NOBODY, 0)
> >
> >to turn it off - ie to revert from a HEAD to a GET request.  And
> >similarly for Range, I'd expect you can set it to an empty string or
> >None to turn it off.
> 
> Yeah, you should. Running the following I see two HEADs go out,
> although some part of libcurl thinks it's doing a GET because it waits
> for the content and then times out. (this is on dapper btw)

OK, it turns out (from
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html) that what you need
is 

  curl.setopt(pycurl.HTTPGET, 1)

to reset it.  This works for me.

-- 
Martin