On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Crispin Olson wrote:
I've dug around and found a few comments and even some examples of how to
use these functions. However, it begs the question - why do these functions
need callback drivers? Why cant they return the data in a string like the
mail_fetch... functions?

The original intent of partial fetching was to permit resource-limited clients to do so without requiring a potentially huge memory buffer. You don't generally want to do a fetch-as-string for a 600MB video file.


I don't think that a callback function is all that hard to write.

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