- From: Eric U <ericu@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 11:11:48 -0700
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>, Florian Bösch <pyalot@gmail.com>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>> Another question to take into account here is whether this should only be
>> about zip. One of the limitations of zip archives is that they aren't
>> streamable. Without boiling the ocean, adding support for a streamable
>> format (which I don't think needs be more complex than tar) would be a big
>> plus.
>
>
> Zips are streamable. That's what the local file headers are for.
> http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
This came up a few years ago; Gregg Tavares explained in [1] that only
/some/ zipfiles are streamable, and you don't know whether yours are
or not until you've seen the whole file.
Eric
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010AprJun/0362.html
Received on Monday, 6 May 2013 18:12:30 UTC