Re: Streams and Blobs

On 2013-02-27 02:55, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> What are some actual use cases?  I don't think any have been
> mentioned on this thread.

- I would like to stream realtime TV. Pausing shouldn't be a problem 
because I don't rely on POST requests and I would just buffer up to a 
certain limit.
- Another use case that comes to mind is starting to watch a video file 
before it is fully downloaded.
- Another one would be downloading only the beginning of a file, e.g. 
for file type identification / thumbnails/ MP3 tags and so on. (How much 
data is needed is probably not known up front and just using increasing 
Range headers would require multiple round trips.)
- Jonas mentioned incremental rendering of large Word or PDF documents.

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Tillmann Karras

Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 08:14:52 UTC