According to Ari Luotonen: > > > Based on the discussion during the past hours, it appears that a > better way to do byte ranges is indeed via an additional header, and > with a 206 partial content response code. > > Doing it via a header will still make it work through existing > proxies, and 206 status code will prevent them from caching it, unless > they understand what's going on. > I would agree with this. > An additional feature is to say "give me a range if the document > hasn't changed, but if it has, send me the entire document". Similar > to If-modified-since, but still quite different... What would you > call such a header? > "Unless-modified-since" (send the byte range) John FranksReceived on Monday, 13 November 1995 17:50:54 UTC
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