- From: Lou Montulli <montulli@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:55:31 -0800
- To: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Cc: Chuck Shotton <cshotton@biap.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Shel Kaphan wrote:
>
> >
> > What you are saying is that you still want to retrieve a given URL (from
> > the client's perspective), but you'd like to GET only the portion you don't
> > already have. Rather like the if-modified-since header affects server
> > responses, a byte-range: header seems more appropriate than convoluting the
> > URL itself. I guess it's really just a matter of semantics, but all the
> > special punctuation, separators and other ca-ca that hang off the end URLs
> > could more easily be represented in many cases as header fields in a GET or
> > POST request.
> >
> ...
>
> Yes, on this, at least, I agree with you.
>
I would be happy with a good header proposal, but I wouldn't
support a new method since byterange requests could apply
to multiple methods. Brian's header proposal looks like a
good start...
:lou
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Received on Monday, 13 November 1995 16:02:11 UTC