Re: Should <video> buffer control be tri-state?

Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:05:51 +0100, Julian Reschke 
> <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>>> ...
>>> To get the first frame and duration for Ogg Theora, you must make at 
>>> least 2 HTTP requests to get the beginning and end of the file 
>>> (unless the X-Content-Duration header is used, in which case 1 would 
>>> suffice). ...
>>
>> Out of curiosity, exactly what HTTP requests are these?
> 
> Two GET with Range: bytes=x-y should do if you can guess the amount of 
> data needed at the beginning at end well enough and if the total size of 
> the resource is returned with the first request (I don't know if that's 
> typically the case or not).

If you need the first N and the last M bytes you can collapse that into 
a single request - even if you don't know the total size - by putting 
both ranges into the request, such as with:

   Range: bytes= 0-n, -M

(where n = N -1)

Best regards, Julian