Re: Lazy Blob

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
>
>> So? Why should lazy blob be specific to HTTP specific semantics when an
>> arbitrary URL is not specific to HTTP?
>>
>
> So if you want to have a lazy reader on Websockets you have either:
> 1) respecify the websocket protocol to include content semantics for
> accessing resources defined by an URL and having a specified size OR
> 2) define an additional protocol on top of websockets, which websockets
> know nothing about, that allows a custom implementation at the server side
> to respond in a meaningful fashion to resource range requests.
>

OR define a mechanism for LazyBlob that permits the injection of app
specific code into the underlying LazyBlob reader loop.