> Hi guys,
>> 
>> Can someone tell me the current state of ATS and http byte range requests?
>> 
>> I have a system (libtorrent http seeding) that we put ATS in front of.  
>> Files are retrieved via 512k byte range requests for each large file.  I 
>> would expect that after fully receiving a file, subsequent downloads via 
>> this mechanism would be cached.  I'm not seeing that in practice.
>> I found this bug: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-475
>
>Yeah, that's the "performance" issue.
>> 
>> But I can't tell what the means to serving byte range requests right now.
>
>Well, if all you see are Range: requests, and nothing ever fetches the full 
>object, it never gets cached :/. Until we fix TS-475 though, I don't think 
>anyone has cared about this problem, but there is at least one bug filled 
>about this (to trigger a background fill of the full object on a Range: 
>request, assuming of course the object is cacheable)


Okay, so if I /do/ pull down the full object, the byte range requests will be 
served from cache?  I'm going to test that now.  

Thanks!

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