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From: russell muetzelfeldt <russm-wWwMKTv0ClVAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>
To: rainbows-talk-GrnCvJ7WPxnNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: range requests and multipart responses
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:26:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DAF56675-78C6-4160-A7DD-30BD4C2ACE27@slofith.org> (raw)

On 20/07/2010, at 02:18:03 EDT, Eric Wong wrote:

> Does anybody have real-world use cases of clients using Range: requests
> with multiple comma-delimited byte ranges (and thus expecting multipart
> responses)?  If not, I'm not going to bloat Rainbows! with it for now[1].

I don't have evidence to hand, but I'm pretty sure I've seen the remote (http-served) disk image support in OSX's hdid(8) do this. Whether that's a use case you care about is another question entirely.

cheers

Russell

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-03  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-03  3:26 russell muetzelfeldt [this message]
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2010-07-20  6:18 range requests and multipart responses Eric Wong
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2010-07-20  9:21   ` James Tucker
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2010-07-20 18:54       ` Eric Wong

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