http text-only request, possible?

[el_mariachi]

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?

[trq]

<?php $body = file_get_contents('http://johnsmith.profile.site.com'); ?>