On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:57:01 +0100, Nicholas Shanks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All said, it would be very useful if the startpos param could be
returned to the server when starting the download, or when scrubbing
forward into parts of the video that haven't yet downloaded. as that
would help avoid using bandwidth unnecessarily.
I see two ways to do that over HTTP:
1) As a HTTP header
2) In the URL
For a long time, HTTP provided support for this through non-default units
in the Range header. Usually servers only support "bytes" as the
measurement units, but the HTTP spec actually allows to use "seconds",
"pages", "chapters" and so on, and defines a clear way for the server to
indicate the support for this.
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