On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:17:53PM -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote:
Brad,
(sorry about not quoting Brad, we're still in the throws of mail server hell)
We've kicked around the idea of an ExternalFile object, and I started a small project that fizzed out. My question was where to draw the line, do we make it a simple pipe to one file, or a Folderoid object that 'mounts' a part of a filesystem into Zope? The first would be pretty simple, the second would be pretty hard, IMO.
The first would be enough I think for MOST people in the near term...
Out of curiosity, what would byte ranging buy you? Do some clients request ranges? I think I read about this in the HTTP 1.1 spec...
Um, byte-serving allows PDF files to be served as PAGES, instead of the whole thing... great for large manuals, it only requests the bytes it actually needs to draw the page... 0-1000, 1000-2000, 3000-4000, etc. CHris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@amber.org