- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:25:51 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Well, is it forbidden to ask servers to give back byte-ranges that a cache
>> can... cache ? What is transported is bytes, so requesting the 10 first
>> characters of an utf-8 document and receiving 12 bytes using a
>> Content-Range in bytes might help caches to DTRT, so I am not sure that the
>> proposed BNF change is desirable (as "exotic" Content-Ranges won't be
>> cached for sure).
>> ...
>
> It would be useful for caches, but not for the client, right? It would still
> need to know what range with respect to the original range unit was returned.
Well, in that case, the range is supposed to match the request, otherwise
a 416 (or anything else than a 206) would be returned.
> I also note that Range (Section 6.4) would need additional work as well.
Indeed.
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~~Yves
Received on Tuesday, 5 August 2008 19:26:27 UTC