Re: [xine-devel] Totem Article

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Michael Roitzsch wrote:

[partial HTTP GET]
> > 	Oh goodness, yes. That's how you are able to resume broken
> > downloads via HTTP (use 'wget --continue' on large movie trailers,
> > for example...:).
>
> Well, I know that you can start at arbitrary positions, but I didn't
> know you can interrupt the server. Or is a partial get simply being
> rude and closes the connection on the client side?

*lol*
No need to be rude, you can just specify an arbitrary byte range to get
from the server, as in:

Range: bytes=2048-4096

Actually, this mode should be easier to implement than the buffering read
we have now. Hrm...

	Siggi