- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:54:43 +0100
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- CC: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, Jeremy Keith <jeremy@adactio.com>, HTMLwg WG <public-html@w3.org>
Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de > <mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de>> wrote: > > 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) > > > Do servers actually support that correctly? If they don't they *should* return a 200 with the full entity. I guess it's worth a try; it's a request type that the Acrobat reader plugin is using as well, so it's definitely working in some servers, such as Apache. Best regards, Julian
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