Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> given that urllib2 already supports partial requests, I'm not sure I see >> the point of reimplementing this on top of httplib. an example: >> >> import urllib2 >> >> request = urllib2.Request("http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm") >> request.add_header("range", "bytes=0-999") > > But what does this do if the URL was a file URL, or an ftp URL?
same thing as if you use range on a HTTP server that doesn't support ranges. you get all the data, and there's no content-range field in the response header. > You have to know the syntax of the range header, and you have to > know the syntax of the content-range header, to process it. With > that, you can just as easily use httplib: I'm not sure "as easily" is the right way to describe something that requires more code but yet leaves out practical things as redirection support, host and user-agent headers, etc. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com