- From: Roland Zink <roland@zinks.de>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:45:42 +0100
- To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Looks like there is the log file example mentioned in the discussion. Where this is often used is in playing videos (although there often no gzip is used but I have seen this too). Many players allow the user to jump within the video. Roland On 26.03.2014 11:22, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <5332A640.60404@zinks.de>, Roland Zink writes: > >> Range works fine with C-E as long as the client retrieves the whole >> beginning of the file. If the client wants to skip some parts of it then >> it is unable to decompress. Retrieving 0-999 then 1000-1999 and so on is >> fine. But retrieving 0-999 and then 2000-2999 is a problem. > Can you give an example of a real-world application where this is anything > but a minor inconvenience ? >
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