On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Marcel Reutegger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 19:01, Simon Gaeremynck <[email protected]> wrote: >> If the result is bigger than a pre-defined OSGi property (ex: 200 resources) >> it will send a 206 >> partial content with the dump of 200 resources and will ignore the rest. > > I like the idea of sending only a partial response. however the HTTP > spec seems to mandate a request that include a range header for such a > response: > > "10.2.7 206 Partial Content > The server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource. The > request MUST have included a Range header field (section 14.35) > indicating the desired range, [...]"
which could also be used to send a followup request to fetch more data. regards, toby
