in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

actually I'd like an option of mine, too, but I can't dare to ask about one 😅

--max-filesize will not even start the transfer if it knows that file size will be beyond the limit. if file size is not known, the transfer will start, but abort once limit is reached. what would be somewhat iseful is an option to allow fetching until limit also if size is in advance known to be larger than limit.