Re: multipart range requests

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 22:40, Robert Collins wrote:
> Ok,
> I don't think that we need full multipart/byteranges support for 3.0
> - it's not present on 2.5.
>
> In 2.5, if we do the range ourself, it will also work in the fix-ranges
> branch.
>
> However, if we don't do the ranges ourself, then we simply pass through
> the object, as a rangeless reply.
>
> So, for 3.0 I plan to do the following:
>
> If we decide not to do ranges on a multipart range request:
> * Mark the object as uncachable.
> * Delete the range request metadata.
>
> Thoughts?

The fix_ranges branch implements this.

I'll start selective merges from that branch in when I get some
feedback, or 3-4 days otherwise.

Rob

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