Re: Live Byte Ranges

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Mon, 28 November 2016 19:57 UTC

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In message <CAOdDvNrrLfh0yV4UdBN_HpHNfD024Kufibe3D4ZB1N-SqYVt4g@mail.gmail.com>
, Patrick McManus writes:

>To summarize briefly - this addresses the problem of addressing byte ranges
>of dynamic (growing) content. A number of solutions have seen false starts
>in this space previously, but this one has a shot at being compatible with
>existing infrastructure.

Varnish will almost certainly implement whatever comes out of this.

Notes from our mumblings in the project:

The "Very Large Value" solution it is brittle in more ways than is
desirable, but try as we may, we don't see any simpler/better ways
of doing it without negotiation/hints.

We suggest to either put a "Quite Large" lower limit on "Very Large
Value", or better yet:  Make it a magic value large enough to not
be a problem relative to actual Range requests.  If we keep with
the 9's motif from the draft, we suggest 999999999999999999 which
doesn't needlessly provoke 64-bit sign issues.

Typo on page 3: "accessable"


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