I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-http-range-retrieval-00.txt

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Working Group of the IETF.                                                 

       Title     : Byte Range Retrieval Extension to HTTP                  
       Author(s) : A. Luotonen, J. Franks
       Filename  : draft-ietf-http-range-retrieval-00.txt
       Pages     : 13
       Date      : 02/22/1996

It is possible in Web clients to interrupt the connection before the data 
transfer has finished.  As a result the client may have partial documents 
or images loaded into its memory.  It would be useful to be able to request
the server to return the missing portion of the document only, instead of 
retransferring the entire file, if the page is re-entered later.           

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