Re: Cannot Resume Package Downloads

On Monday 15 November 2004 02:31 pm, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > If you have to start the download from the
> > beginning just to download a package that was partially retrieved
> > that's a
> > bug.
>
> It's not a bug, it's a mismanaged server. It has nothing to do with
> Subversion.
>
> Until today, I didn't even *realize* that http downloads could be
> resumed at all!

As a marginally interesting side note, while "resume" support is part of the
RFC (#2616), it is not required. The RFC refers to the concept as a "partial
GET", where the request message includes a Range header field.

From 14.35.1: "However, not all clients and servers need to support byte-
range operations."

Section 9.3: GET
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.3

Section 14.35.1: Byte Ranges
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35

-Sean

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