[9867] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Improve the traffic condition on the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mirsad Todorovac)
Fri Mar 22 04:36:30 1996
From: Mirsad Todorovac <tm@rasips2.rasip.etf.hr>
To: S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Turner)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:23:01 +0100 (MET)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <m0tzlcz-000TJVC@cougar.statslab.cam.ac.uk> from "Stephen Turner" at Mar 21, 96 02:46:12 pm
Reply-To: mirsad.todorovac@fer.hr
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>
> I wrote:
> ->
> -> I may be missing something here, but couldn't there be a way in the HTTP
> -> protocol to specify that one wants the end of a file, missing off the first
> -> n bytes, say? Often I find myself getting half of a long file before losing
> -> the connection, and having to get the whole file again. This decreases the
> -> chance of my being able to complete the retrieval and increases traffic on
> -> the network. Comments?
> ->
>
> Someone's pointed out to me that the HTTP/1.1 proposal includes a Range:
> header to do this, although I see that that paragraph hasn't been written
> in the latest draft.
This is a subject of separate draft: <draft-luotonen-http-url-byterange-02.txt>,
dated Dec 15, 1995.
>
> --
> Stephen R. E. Turner
> Stochastic Networks Group, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
> e-mail: sret1@cam.ac.uk WWW: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/home.html
>
>
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| Mirsad Todorovac |
| Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing |
| University of Zagreb |
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