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Re: GET with offset ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tristan Savatier)
Sun Aug 30 19:29:05 1998
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:26:56 -0700
From: Tristan Savatier <tristan@mpegtv.com>
To: Albert Lunde <albert-lunde@nwu.edu>
Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, www-talk@w3.org, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>,
Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Thanks. Now I see how to do a GET with range request.
Now, another question:
Is there a way to specify the offset or range with the http: URL
syntax ?
i.e. something like http://host/dir/file@range=0,500
-t
Albert Lunde wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone ever considered that it would be useful to be able
> > to add an optionnal 'offset' parameter to the GET request ?
>
> This feature already exists in HTTP/1.1
>
> See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068
>
> 14.36.2 Range Retrieval Requests
>
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-04.txt
>
> 14.35.1 Byte Ranges
>
> or more generally, search for the word "range" in the text
> to find related subjects.
> --
> -
> -
> Albert Lunde Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
