[8239] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Byte ranges -- formal spec proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gavin Nicol)
Sun May 21 03:00:08 1995
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 14:17:47 +0500
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Reply-To: gtn@ebt.com
From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
I do not like the idea of byte ranges being part of a URL.
In DynaWeb for example
http://www.ebt.com/collection/readers?byterange=1-500
is absolutely meaningless, because the actual file size is not
related to the size of the documents retrieved. Worse even,
there are cases (and DynaWeb is one) where a single URL
can possibly reference documents that differ in an
arbitrary manner.
In other words, byte ranges are not generally applicable to
all objects accessible via a URL, so we cannot make this
a requirement.
How about adding another method instead?
