Re: Test Cases: moving forward

Hi Silvia,

>>   - For #11, #12, #14 and #16: I suggest we force a 206 answer, with the
>> rationale that a fragment has been requested (that might be equal to the
>> entire resource but this is similar to case #01!).
>
> It's not really up to us, but it's up to the UA. As the UA will have
> to retrieve the full resource, the question is whether it wants to
> retrieve the resource in byte ranges or in one go. I have formulated
> this better in the spec actually.

We have further discussed this during today's telecon, but for the 
record: my rationale is that as soon as a Range request is issued, a 206 
Partial Content should be returned. Therefore, the problem amounts to 
whether the UA should issue a Range request at all when it notices the 
fragment will be equal to the entire resource.

I understand the good will of optimizing the communication between the 
UA and the server but I think we should not put too far away the 
intelligence that the UA should have.

   Raphaël

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