Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:47 UTC
There are a number of cases where one is not interested into the whole page but possibly just the lead (section=0) or an arbitrary section. This is currently possible with action=edit, but not with viewing actions (view, render, and raw). It would also be great to being able to only retrieve the TOC of an article; this can be useful on slow connections, where one may want to first get the TOC only and then only some of the sections.
If a page is so long you have this requirement, the page should be broken up into smaller pages.
*** Bug 12861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***