[8225] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Byte ranges -- formal spec proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vania Joloboff)
Thu May 18 14:05:58 1995
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 13:44:00 +0500
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Reply-To: vania@gr.osf.org
From: "Vania Joloboff" <vania@gr.osf.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
> Any thought on how this should interect with dynamic computed documents
> (CGI-bin scripts)? Supporting range addressing of computed documents
> would require either re-computation on each fetch, or caching. If
> re-computed, how do you guarantee consistancy? Imagine fetching a
> document one byte at a time that contains the server's load average.
Are you suggesting that instead of an addressing schema,
one should focus instead on a naming schema for parts,
the mapping of which would be left to the server ?
That is, servers could provide part identifiers
instead of part addresses, and client could query
those identifiers.
Vania
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