- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:48:37 -0800
- To: Martin Thelian <Martin.Thelian@gmx.at>
- Cc: http mailinglist <www-talk@w3.org>
Jeff Mogul wrote an excellent paper that covered this problem (among others); http://www2002.org/CDROM/refereed/444.pdf In short, do compression first, then range selection. Content-codings are metadata about the encoding of the representation, whereas ranges are more ephemeral. Cheers, On 2006/02/21, at 12:15 AM, Martin Thelian wrote: > > Hi! > > If I'd like to combine Content-Encoding gzip with Content-Range. > Which offsets do I have to use in the request and response > messages. Is the offset then pointing to a position in the original > content or to a position in the encoded content? And what about the > instance-length? Is it the length of the compressed or original > resource? > > Thank you! > > Martin Thelian -- Mark Nottingham mnot@yahoo-inc.com
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