- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 17:45:24 PDT
- To: Carl.von.Loesch@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
> I said: > | Except for the case of extracting individual segments out of larger > | ascii files, though, I'm having trouble thinking of any real examples > | of this, and, in particular, any examples where the documents aren't > | text/plain. > and Carl von Loesch <Carl.von.Loesch@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> replied: > Ever tried to download netscape from overseas? > And no, I don't want to explain every netscape user how to download using > ftp and REGET, as it would circumvent any hope of having the stuff cached > by the WWW proxies. which might be a clever rejoinder, except that the proposal doesn't actually solve the problem. That is, this is not a proposal for finishing a partial transmission when the original transmission failed, and there doesn't seem to be any practical way to use URL byte ranges to implement retransmission after failure. > Explain every user how to ftp from mirrors? > We're working on that, but the number of net newbies is growing too fast. Whether there are a lot of net newbies is irrelevant to the question of whether the proposal to include byte ranges in URLs is useful.
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