Re: Range equivalence (was Re: 5th F2F meeting: second day summary)

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Raphaël Troncy wrote:
>
>> # A new header named 'Content-Range-Mapping' will be introduced, which
>> purpose is to expressed a mapping of a Content Range between 2 units (e.g.
>> bytes and seconds)
>
> Range processing can't introduce new entity headers

Can you explain why? There is no existing infrastructure for any range
handling other than bytes, so if our range handling requires an
additional, informative header, why sholdn't it be possible to
introduce it?

Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:59:06 UTC