Could be natively supported by the browser... you want to talk to the
mozilla folks about it?

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:25:14PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> >Would probably confuse the client... Can you test this?
> >
> No luck. Firefox won't send new requests in response to 4xx codes, and 
> it will only send up to 20 requests per page in response to 3xx codes.
> 
> I suppose another possibility would be to create a simple "out-of-order" 
> file format, which could be shared with other p2p networks that support 
> out-of-order downloads. The file starts with a 64-bit length field, and 
> each chunk is prefixed with a 64-bit length and a 64-bit offset. It's 
> pretty trivial to reassemble files, detect incomplete files and resume 
> downloads, and the inconvenience for users is no worse than downloading 
> a ZIP archive.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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