RE: Plans for supporting HTTP PUT resume?

["GARTRELL,MIKE (HP-Corvallis,ex1)" <mi...@hp.com>]

	Do you have an estimate about when this patch will be ported to
Slide?

-----Original Message-----
From: Remy Maucherat [mailto:remm@apache.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:01 PM
To: Slide Developers List
Subject: Re: Plans for supporting HTTP PUT resume?


> Highly unlikely !!
> AFAIK, no open source or other commonly available tool (including GetRight
> and the breed) support HTTP PUT with resume. (Hell !! Getright does not
even
> support PUT, forget partial PUT)

Yes, that's correct. I just checked.

cURL claims to support it, BTW.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/features.html

> For the kind of things that GetRight does, open source alternative wget
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html) is much better.
>
> Coming more to the point, AFAIK RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1) describes range
headers
> only for GET requests (see section 19.34). Similary I could not find any
> reference to partial PUT in RFC 2518 (WebDAV). A quich check on Google
> returned found a few mails on w3c lists where people have PROPOSED it and
a
> proposal on w3c site
>
(http://www.w3.org/Authoring/draft-lassila-dist-auth-scenarios.html#toc-dist
> -edit) but no real specs.
>
> Can somebody point me to the relavant specs that describe partial PUT for
> HTTP or DAV.

Well, for me a partial PUT is a PUT with a content-range header. I just
added the support to Tomcat 4 based on Mike's patch (the nightly for 11/29
will have it). I plan to port the patch to Slide.

Remy


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