[11218] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: GET with offset ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Connolly)
Sun Aug 30 18:40:59 1998
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:41:24 -0500
From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
To: Tristan Savatier <tristan@mpegtv.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Tristan Savatier wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever considered that it would be useful to be able
> to add an optionnal 'offset' parameter to the GET request ?
Yes:
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
January 1997
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068
14.36.2 Range Retrieval Requests
HTTP retrieval requests using conditional or unconditional GET
methods may request one or more sub-ranges of the entity, instead of
the entire entity, using the Range request header, which applies to
the entity returned as the result of the request:
Range = "Range" ":" ranges-specifier
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> By the way, the same comment applies to the FTP protocol, too.
The same facility exists in FTP, I'm quite sure.
I don't happen to have that spec handy, but I'm
sure it's only a few hops from http://www.ietf.org/
--
Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
