Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I've just been putting together a podcasting doodad and have included
>> resuming
>> support in it. Is this something that's already in the pipeline or should I
>> abstract it out to urllib and submit a patch?
>
> Not sure where you got the impression that 206 is "resume"; in my copy
> of the spec it's "partial content", and you must have put a Range:
> header into the request to get that in the first place.
>
> If I had to use that, I'd implement it right on top of httplib, and
> wouldn't bother with urllib*: this is really specific to http, and
> adding it to urllib would break the abstraction.
given that urllib2 already supports partial requests, I'm not sure I see
the point of reimplementing this on top of httplib. an example:
import urllib2
request = urllib2.Request("http://www.pythonware.com/daily/index.htm";)
request.add_header("range", "bytes=0-999")
http_file = urllib2.urlopen(request)
print http_file.headers["content-range"]
print len(http_file.read())
this prints:
bytes 0-999/245105
1000
</F>
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