> Or maybe, even better, limit the read to the first 200 bytes,
> which is all I need.  (Not finding an option in "man wget" or
> "man curl".)

Could you pipe it through dd with something like
   dd bs=200 count=1
? That would still hang if you didn't get to 200 bytes.

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