Le jeudi 06 novembre 2008, à 14:32 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What if the connection works in both cases, but the results are > > different? I would guess it's up to the application to know if the > > connection should be restarted. > > > > An example for this (although this is a short-life connection) is that > > you can directly access PDF of the ACM library via a proxy while you end > > up on a webpage asking you to login if you don't use the proxy. I guess > > there could be similar examples -- but maybe it's not that important, > > don't know. > > But is it likely that the user remembers and manages to switch the > proxy *during* the download to save one click? > > What if while trying to read that PDF you were 90% done downloading > another large file (say a DVD iso) that is equally accessible with or > without a proxy? Should it be restarted from scratch as there is no > guarantee as to data integrity in case of (range GET) resuming with > another proxy (a different cached copy comes to mind as a trivial > example)?
That's why I said it might be up to the application to know what to do :-) But it might be an issue that's not really solvable without user interaction anyway... Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
