> -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Fritsch [mailto:s...@sfritsch.de] > Sent: Montag, 26. September 2011 18:30 > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: httpd 2.0.65 - when? > > On Monday 26 September 2011, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group wrote: > > > Agreed, if people decide our handling of range "0-" is not > > > desirable, this would seem to be a showstopper on all three > > > branches. Personally, I find the current behavior acceptable by > > > the spec and per the underlying errata Roy has suggested. > > > > > > Clients should not be able to shift trivial processing (which > > > the client is perfectly capable of performing) to the server in > > > ways that increase network traffic or server load. HTTP/1.1 > > > conversations must be designed to efficiently utilize network > > > bandwidth, and these particular clients did not do that. I'm on > > > the fence whether we should restore such abuse. > > > > I agree with you, but I am leaning towards to revert this > > behaviour, because there are too much "stupid" clients out there. > > So it looks like the "smarter" party has to give in :-). Sigh. > > +1 > > Also, as documented in the Mozilla Bugzilla, there have also > been dumb > servers which send "Accept-Ranges: bytes" but don't support ranges. > So it's somewhat understandable that clients try different methods to > determine range support. They should have used a partial > range request > instead of requesting the whole file, though :-(
Like 0-0 or -1 Regards Rüdiger
