Ouch, I think the amount of discussion about achieving large-file download through a web interface is pretty good evidence of how cumbersome and time-consuming it is likely to be to code, which was my main concern with it.
I would encourage us to focus on more immediate issues, we have a funding crunch coming up in a few weeks and unless we have something to demonstrate to the world for all our talk of 0.7, I fear we may have trouble paying Matthew his next instalment :-( Ian. On 2 Sep 2005, at 14:27, Matthew Toseland wrote: > 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 >> > -- > 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
