- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:43:26 +0200
- To: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- CC: Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>, "A. Rothman" <amichai2@amichais.bounceme.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
David Morris wrote: >>> btw do u think it is worth the added complexity to the spec and server >>> implementation? is there some sort of usage/support statistics on >>> clients that make use of out-of-order mutliple-ranges requests which >>> show it to be worthwhile? >> As already mentioned in this thread the Acrobat Reader browser plugin is >> the most frequent user of out-of-order ranges. It first downloads the >> ToC at the end of the document, then the rest of the document, > > Isn't that done with multiple requests? At one time their plan was to > actually request document segments. At least for large documents. That > doesn't happen either? It definitely requests ranges sometimes. As far as I recall, it varies with Acrobat Reader versions a lot. BR, Julian
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