Re: Content-Encoding, Content-Range

Jeff Mogul wrote an excellent paper that covered this problem (among  
others);
   http://www2002.org/CDROM/refereed/444.pdf

In short, do compression first, then range selection. Content-codings  
are metadata about the encoding of the representation, whereas ranges  
are more ephemeral.

Cheers,


On 2006/02/21, at 12:15 AM, Martin Thelian wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> If I'd like to combine Content-Encoding gzip with Content-Range.  
> Which offsets do I have to use in the request and response  
> messages. Is the offset then pointing to a position in the original  
> content or to a position in the encoded content? And what about the  
> instance-length? Is it the length of the compressed or original  
> resource?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Martin Thelian

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