On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/6/14, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That X-Range header was an experiment me and Faidon tried for the ogv.js
> > media player I've been prototyping (Flash fallback version) . We couldn't
> > get the extra header -- or the regular Range header -- to work through
> the
> > varnish layer though, so current code doesn't use it.
>
> What problem did you experience? At first glance, the range header
> appears to work for me. (Although whether varnish actually caches
> ranged responses is unclear)
>

From the Flash level we can't actually send the Range header as it's
blacklisted; the theory was to send a secondary header which we could
translate in Varnish; I don't recall the details now of whether that
translation was flaky or whether Flash still wouldn't even send that header.

-- brion
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