- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:16:22 -0400
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
On 8/1/12 11:44 AM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Ideally, a new responseType could be added to XHR which operates like > "blob", except instead of reading the whole resource, it just performs a > HEAD to retrieve the response length and immediately returns the Blob, > which can be read to perform further Content-Range reads. Unless the server is one of the common ones with broken HEAD handling. Or unless the resource is served with Content-Encoding:gzip, in which case your Content-Range is all sorta broken. :( > The trouble is chunked responses, where the length of the resource isn't > known in advance, since Blobs have a static length and aren't designed > for streaming. That's another trouble, yes. -Boris
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