I doubt it very much. It would probably greatly complicate a browser's network implementation having to track complex ranges... obviously it's possible, it's a question of whether they would want to implement it just for freenet proxies, bittorrent proxies and so on.
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:44:54PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:30:09PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > > Does anyone know how browsers react if they request an entire file and > > get a 206 (partial content) response? Do they send additional requests > > for the remaining data? If so, then perhaps partial content responses > > could be used to deliver pieces of the file out-of-order? > > Hrrm. That's actually quite a good idea. I've mailed a Person Who Would > Know, but from the RFC it's unlikely that browsers will do the above. > > > > Perhaps it would be worth talking to the Mozilla people about > > out-of-order downloads, since BitTorrent faces this problem too. From a > > quick look at RFC 2616 I get the impression that servers are allowed to > > send pieces of the file out of order, provided each piece is sent in a > > separate response (you can't send a multipart/byteranges response to a > > request for a single range). The question is how gracefully the client > > will handle the situation... > > You can't have a 206 in response to a request that didn't ask for a > byterange: > > "10.2.7 206 Partial Content > > The server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource. > The request MUST have included a Range header field (section 14.35) > indicating the desired range, and MAY have included an If-Range > header field (section 14.27) to make the request conditional." > > Having said that, it's just possible that it would be easy to change it > to accomodate e.g. bittorrent proxies... > > > > Cheers, > > Michael > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20050901/497908c8/attachment.pgp>
