+---------- On Jan 23, Jim Davidson said:
> Are byte ranges useful outside big static file downloads?

I don't know.  One level of possibly useful support would be simply to
have AOLserver parse the byte-range request and make it available via an
API.  For example, a site that stores large binary objects in a database
could use the API to return a byte range.

Another level of support would be to make fastpath and ns_returnfile use
the byte-range info to return just the requested portion of a file. API.
A site that delivers large binary files from a database might find this
useful.  I implemented this in 3.3+ad12.  At ArsDigita we only used
AOLserver - we didn't have a separate server for static files.

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