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From: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: 29 Jun 1996 09:51:01 GMT
Organization: Radio Gnome Invisible
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On 27 Jun 1996 08:15:26 +0100, Nick Holloway <Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I haven't checked the HTTP protocol in detail, but I suspect that it
> doesn't include an offset to continue fetching at.

I have a feeling that byte ranges may well be included in the HTTP/1.1
standard.  Not sure though.  If you are using the wn server (lovely
little animal!), that will do byte ranges as well.

Get it from ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/wn/wn.tar.gz.

-Dom