Re: GOOGLE SAVES THE WORLD - Range request utility: Chrome vs FF vs IE vs Safari from Zhong Yu on 2014-04-08 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2014)

From: Zhong Yu <zhong.j.yu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 16:57:08 -0500
To: C.Brunhuber@iaea.org
Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, K.Morgan@iaea.org
Message-ID: <CACuKZqHBzJswEHmOZdbLo_HiWtbiYC0ZyGGtvUF9S5vyngbZ8Q@mail.gmail.com>

OK, if I "cancel" a download on Chrome, then enter the URL on address
bar, Chrome seems to be able to resume the download with a Range
request.

So my observation is such:

If the 1st response has no ETag, or has no Content-Length,
FireFox/IE/Chrome will not resume the download with a Range request.

If the 1st response is gzip-ed with Content-Length, Chrome will resume
the download with a Range request; Firefox/IE will not.

Zhong Yu

Received on Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:57:35 UTC