- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:10:41 +0200
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2014-06-18 11:11, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <53A123AD.8090503@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes: > >> Intermediaries that fail for unknown range units are broken, no? > > No, they may simply know something about the origin you do not, and > decide that delivering the full object is the way to satisfy the request. That's not "failing". >>> - What benefits does standardising a range-unit bring this use case (over just using application-specific semantics)? >> >> That it would work with standard software such as httpd, static files, >> and a new module? > > That will only happen if people need it enough to ask for it to be > implemented. Very few people tail gzip'ed logfiles. I agree that gzipped logfiles aren't a very compelling use case. Best regards, Julian
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