On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:27 -0400, Brian Long wrote: > Seth et al, > > Would it make sense to add a feature / work-around which would be a > fall-back mechanism when HTTP byte-range requests fail? The only > work-around I see would be to download the entire RPM and strip off the > correct byte-range from the file instead of over HTTP. Is this a > ridiculous request? not really. Though I would recommend: 1. supporting the http 1.1 spec ;) 2. seeing if you can switch them to ftp, briefly. Michael, Ryan, Do you remember what we had discussed/decided on wrt a fallback mode for systems not supporting byte-ranges? -sv
