- From: Stephen Turner <S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:46:12 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-talk@w3.org
I wrote: -> -> I may be missing something here, but couldn't there be a way in the HTTP -> protocol to specify that one wants the end of a file, missing off the first -> n bytes, say? Often I find myself getting half of a long file before losing -> the connection, and having to get the whole file again. This decreases the -> chance of my being able to complete the retrieval and increases traffic on -> the network. Comments? -> Someone's pointed out to me that the HTTP/1.1 proposal includes a Range: header to do this, although I see that that paragraph hasn't been written in the latest draft. -- Stephen R. E. Turner Stochastic Networks Group, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge e-mail: sret1@cam.ac.uk WWW: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/home.html
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