Adobe's Acrobat Viewer supports byte range serving when installed as a plug-in for Netscape Navigator, or as an ActiveX control for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It'll pull down a page at a time as you move through the document.

/s.



On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 06:47 PM, Jim Davidson wrote:

In a message dated 1/23/2003 6:24:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>What portions do you think would make the most sense to support, and what
>benefits would supporting those features provide?

Keep-alive enabled by default - allows persistent client/server
connections without negotiation.

Chunked transfer coding - allows streaming content within persistent
connections.

Byte ranges - allows a client to resume an interrupted transfer.





Are byte ranges useful outside big static file downloads?�

-Jim

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