W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > w3c-dist-auth@w3.org > July to September 2003

Re: FW: Partial Property Data Retrieval???

From: Chris Knight <Christopher.D.Knight@nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:28:58 -0700
Message-ID: <3F58D5EA.4070806@nasa.gov>
To: frank.judge@corp.palm.com
Cc: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org> 

Jim Whitehead wrote:

>For example, if you have a document object
>that has only a text property containing all the document data, you may
>only want the first 100K of a 10 megabyte document.
>
In retrospect, this is a different question...HTTP/1.1 currently 
supports the "Range" header for GET requests that would satisfy your 
requirement to download parts of document data.

See *ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt*
Received on Friday, 5 September 2003 14:28:28 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 18:44:04 GMT