How do we use HTTP range header in java?

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Sundar - 17 Aug 2006 10:16 GMT

Hi,
Im new to HTTP range header... how do we use range header in java? How
is it different from HTTP GET??

Kindly Help

-Sundar

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 17 Aug 2006 10:55 GMT

> Im new to HTTP range header...

ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt

> how do we use range header in java?

The same as any other header. However, I have my doubts if the old
HttpURLConnection class in Java will be able to deal with all the finer
details of HTTP/1.1 ranges. You might consider investigating the Apache
Jakarta Commons library.

> How
> is it different from HTTP GET??

It isn't. It is a GET with range headers. If you don't know what headers
in HTTP are, see the above mentioned reference.

/Thomas

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