Re: Comments on Byte range draft
Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Sun, 12 Nov 1995 07:51:05 -0500
>You and Larry are looking at this problem with blinders on.
>There are many more uses for byterange URL's than simply
>PDF files. For instance Netscape 2.0 uses byteranges to
>request parts of files that it didn't get the last time
>you came to a page.
And then you have to reparse the entire document again, and re-render
it, possibly ignoring the errors caused by the file being
incomplete. This is great for small pages, but if you try fetching
small peices of a 5MB document, it makes no sense.
Byte ranges are a lazy replacement for a general naming mechanism.