On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Robin Berjon <ro...@w3.org> wrote: >> >> Another question to take into account here is whether this should only be >> about zip. One of the limitations of zip archives is that they aren't >> streamable. Without boiling the ocean, adding support for a streamable >> format (which I don't think needs be more complex than tar) would be a big >> plus. > > > Zips are streamable. That's what the local file headers are for. > http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT
This came up a few years ago; Gregg Tavares explained in [1] that only /some/ zipfiles are streamable, and you don't know whether yours are or not until you've seen the whole file. Eric [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010AprJun/0362.html