RE: Range Requests vs Content Codings

Any Chrome/Chromium devs out there???



As we pointed out in [1], Chrome goes through a bit of a bizarre "song and dance" when it resumes interrupted transfers (not just for "downloads" of large entities by the way, also for static content such as css files and scripts - which also see a performance benefit from resumed downloading after an interruption, e.g. on a mobile network).

When resuming an interrupted transfer, Chrome actually sends two range requests. The first request Chrome sends asks for a single byte directly after the already downloaded portion and, if successful, sends a second request for the rest of the content by specifying the exact range. (See [1] for an example.)



Since Google is so finicky about saving RTTs, there must be a good reason for doing the 2-range-request "song and dance". There must be some Chrome/Chromium devs out there.  I would love to hear why Chrome does that.  I can only guess why, but my theory is that it's related to dynamic C-E and range requests.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2014AprJun/0112.html



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