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Re: GET with offset ?

From: Albert Lunde <albert-lunde@nwu.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:14:46 CDT
Message-Id: <199808302314.SAA08061@pubweb.nwu.edu>
To: tristan@mpegtv.com
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com 
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> Has anyone ever considered that it would be useful to be able
> to add an optionnal 'offset' parameter to the GET request ?

This feature already exists in HTTP/1.1 

See  http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068

14.36.2 Range Retrieval Requests

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-04.txt

14.35.1 Byte Ranges

or more generally, search for the word "range" in the text
to find related subjects.
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    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
Received on Sunday, 30 August 1998 16:16:51 EDT

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