- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 20:39:02 -0500
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> incomplete. This is great for small pages, but if you try fetching >> small peices of a 5MB document, it makes no sense. > >What makes you think it makes no sense. Give a 5MB HTML document to Netscape Navigator. For certain media types, and HTML is one, you can request peices (not byte ranges), and do not need to reparse the data. For example, it makes more sense to ask for single elements from HTML, than a byte range. >> Byte ranges are a lazy replacement for a general naming mechanism. > >What's your naming scheme for JPEG files? How about AVI >video streams? Bytes are already a general purpose naming scheme, >and they have been used for a number of years. There is no >need to invent another one. Byte ranges are not sufficient for many data types, and indeed, are potentially harmful. A general naming mechanism would allow byte range naming, as well as things like asking for elements m to n in an HTML document.
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