- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:43:37 -0700 (PDT)
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com (HTTP WG)
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : Byte Ranges With HTTP URLs
Author(s) : A. Luotonen, J. Franks
Filename : draft-luotonen-http-url-byterange-00.txt
Pages : 7
Date : 06/21/1995
There are a number of Web applications that would benefit from being able
to request the server to give a byte range of a document. As an example an
Adobe PDF viewer needs to be able to access individual pages by byte range;
the table that defines those ranges is located at the end of the PDF file.
It may be argued that this should be left as a server-specific feature in
the opaque URL, as the "parameters" used in URLs that may be available or
useful can vary from server to server. However, there are reasons why
standardizing the byte range feature would be beneficial.
Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username
"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in,
type "cd internet-drafts" and then
"get draft-luotonen-http-url-byterange-00.txt".
A URL for the Internet-Draft is:
ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-luotonen-http-url-byterange-00.txt
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Cheers,
--
Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com
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Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
Received on Thursday, 29 June 1995 09:10:43 UTC