- From: Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:58:27 +0200
- To: Giannakopoulos Michalis <mgi@elca.ch>
- CC: www-jigsaw@w3.org
Giannakopoulos Michalis wrote:
> >> Is it possible to limit the size of files transfered to the client?
> >
> >Yes, but you'll have to write a filter for that, we have such a filter but
> only for
> >PUT.
>
> But is that right that with this approach, files greater than the limit will
> simply not be transfered to the client?
Yes, If you want the filter could responds with a 403 forbidden or something
like that.
> We have two jigsaw servers working in the following manner: a browser
> connects to the first jigsaw server acting as a mirror, which redirect the
> request to the second jigsaw server acting as a proxy, which forward the
> request to a web server.
>
> (browser) <-> (mirror) <-> (proxy) <-> (web server)
>
> If I'd like to limit the size of files transmitted between my proxy and my
> mirror, I can use a filter on the proxy, but files greater than the limit
> will not be transmitted. Is there a way to cut these files, on the proxy, in
> parts smaller than the limit, so that the mirror will reassemble the file
> and transmit it to the browser?
Well, you can implement it but it's not in Jigsaw. HTTP allows you to
get only a part of a reply, you can specify the part you want with the
Range header. Here is the HTTP 1.1 specification [1].
[1]http://www.w3.org/Protocols/History.html#HTTP11
Regards, Benoit.
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- Benoît Mahé -------------------------------------------------------
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Received on Wednesday, 26 May 1999 04:01:57 UTC