Re: Comments on Byte range draft
Lou Montulli (montulli@mozilla.com)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:33:25 -0800
Gavin Nicol wrote:
>
> >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.
What makes you think it makes no sense. An If-modified-since
request can guarantee that the object hasn't changed. From
there it's just a simple matter of requesting the parts that
are missing.
>
> Byte ranges are a lazy replacement for a general naming mechanism.
What's your naming scheme for JPEG files? How about AVI
video streams? Bytes are already a general purpose naming scheme,
and they have been used for a number of years. There is no
need to invent another one.
:lou
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