>You and Larry are looking at this problem with blinders on. >There are many more uses for byterange URL's than simply >PDF files. For instance Netscape 2.0 uses byteranges to >request parts of files that it didn't get the last time >you came to a page. And then you have to reparse the entire document again, and re-render it, possibly ignoring the errors caused by the file being incomplete. This is great for small pages, but if you try fetching small peices of a 5MB document, it makes no sense. Byte ranges are a lazy replacement for a general naming mechanism.Received on Sunday, 12 November 1995 04:49:30 UTC
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