- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:14:00 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: luotonen@netscape.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter writes: > I've never been able to figure out how the client knows what byte > range to ask for in a PDF document. This is just a mystery part of the > proposal. (Is it some trade secret? My PDF book doesn't say anything > about byte ranges that I can find.) > It seemed to me that there should be no reference to PDF files in the byte range document if it is going to become part of a standard, as it is clear from the discussion on this list that many people don't believe this is an appropriate use of the the byte-range functionality. (Nothing's going to stop anyone from using it this way -- it just shouldn't be stated as a reason for the existence of this part of the protocol).
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