Re: OODL: Stacks on the Web

[DeRobertis]

At 2:15 PM +0100 on 1/31/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

>  Then I guess the next to best solution would be just creating a file
>format that splits different parts of a block file into separate
>files. This way we can download each file separately, like it happens
>with HTML pages. Not as convenient as real streaming, but more
>universal.

HTTP is really not designed for this. It'd work, but slowly.

HTTP was designed to stream from the beginning to the end, and no other
way. Maybe we'd be better off just arranging blocks in the order
they'll be used?