> Thanks. Now I see how to do a GET with range request. > Now, another question: > Is there a way to specify the offset or range with the http: URL > syntax ? > i.e. something like http://host/dir/file@range=0,500 The real question is how such an addition (to some future http 1.2) would be used. I can think of two general cases: 1)Aas a means of obtaining a portion of a resource; such as a single chapter of a long document. But one could always just have separate files containing chapter 1, chapter 2,.. ( as complements to the "entire document"). Alternatively, a script (cgi-bin or whatever) that would parse the request line, looking for a "@range", and (if found) use the "=0,500" to selectively return a portion of the document, should be fairly easy to create. 2) As a means of selectively updating a portion of an otherwise large resource. For example, acrobat can use a range: header to request selected pages of a long pdf file. But this then means having client software (i.e.; browsers) that understand the request syntax being used. But there already is a syntax that will support such actions (that is, the aforementioned use of range: request header). In other words, although new http methods, etc (such as adoption of a RANGE method) might be useful, I suspect it's not worth the trouble.Received on Friday, 18 September 1998 07:54:18 UTC
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