Ouch, I think the amount of discussion about achieving large-file
download through a web interface is pretty good evidence of how
cumbersome and time-consuming it is likely to be to code, which was
my main concern with it.
I would encourage us to focus on more immediate issues, we have a
funding crunch coming up in a few weeks and unless we have something
to demonstrate to the world for all our talk of 0.7, I fear we may
have trouble paying Matthew his next instalment :-(
Ian.
On 2 Sep 2005, at 14:27, Matthew Toseland wrote:
Could be natively supported by the browser... you want to talk to the
mozilla folks about it?
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:25:14PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
Matthew Toseland wrote:
Would probably confuse the client... Can you test this?
No luck. Firefox won't send new requests in response to 4xx codes,
and
it will only send up to 20 requests per page in response to 3xx
codes.
I suppose another possibility would be to create a simple "out-of-
order"
file format, which could be shared with other p2p networks that
support
out-of-order downloads. The file starts with a 64-bit length
field, and
each chunk is prefixed with a 64-bit length and a 64-bit offset. It's
pretty trivial to reassemble files, detect incomplete files and
resume
downloads, and the inconvenience for users is no worse than
downloading
a ZIP archive.
Cheers,
Michael
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