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Re: Ranged downloads on file:// URLs

From: Daniel Egger <daniel_at_eggers-club.de>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 19:34:23 +0100

On 28.12.2007, at 18:40, Daniel Egger wrote:

Ping? Any opions on the patch and the testcases?

> On 28.12.2007, at 12:38, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
>> No, it's not really intentional. I think it's just a case of nobody
>> ever tried it and we have no test case testing it...
>
> Strange, that works just like dd but with a sane syntax. I haven't
> tried either but coming to think of it I find that pretty useful.
>
>> It should already work, but apparently it doesn't...
>
> Only resume_from was implemented.
>
>>> Would be a patch to implement this feature likely be accepted?
>
>> Yes it would. Bonus points would be handed out if the patch also
>> provides one or more test cases for the feature! ;-)
>
> I need to figure out how the testcases work, then it should be easy to
> supply them.
>
> Meanwhile here's a patch that implements this feature (and was tested
> manually by me. :))
>
> Unfortunately it almost duplicates the range parsing from the FTP
> code;
> this should be factored out IMHO, the rest is pretty trivial.
>
> Please let me know what you think about it.
>
> <patch>
>
> Servus,
> Daniel
>

Servus,
       Daniel
Received on 2008-01-04