- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 13:53:43 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Chuck Shotton <cshotton@biap.com>
- Cc: brian@organic.com, dwm@shell.portal.com, john@math.nwu.edu, luotonen@netscape.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> >Well, we do have to settle on a standard though, since we're going to > >rely proxy servers to reassemble full documents from byte ranges. At > >least that was my interpretation of Ari's proposal - the proxy needs to > >know if "1-end" means the complete document or not. > > Says who? Who said anything about proxies trying to be cute in the middle > of byte range requests? Says me. The second paragraph of the proposal indicates that making proxies aware of this is one of the primary reasons why this standard should exist. We're talking about potentially HUGE documents, which is the very reason why byteranges make sense with them. So caching them, and possibly reconstructing them from pieces, is a big win, and not doing that would be really silly. The spec is written so as to make this work through existing proxies without support for it, to intentionally break with servers that don't have support for it, and to make it work in clients without adding more interaction and complexity between HTML and HTTP. I'll go thru the whole thread this afternoon, and will send a summary of changes later today for review. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
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