Does anyone know how browsers react if they request an entire file and
get a 206 (partial content) response? Do they send additional requests
for the remaining data? If so, then perhaps partial content responses
could be used to deliver pieces of the file out-of-order?
Perhaps it would be worth talking to the Mozilla people about
out-of-order downloads, since BitTorrent faces this problem too. From a
quick look at RFC 2616 I get the impression that servers are allowed to
send pieces of the file out of order, provided each piece is sent in a
separate response (you can't send a multipart/byteranges response to a
request for a single range). The question is how gracefully the client
will handle the situation...
Cheers,
Michael
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