On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, Mark J Cox wrote:
> > > The requested URL /pub/tex/;bytes=190- was not found on this server.<P>
>
> On a hunch I just looked through telescope.org's transfer log:
>
> somewhere.com - - [16/Oct/1995:21:04:26 +0100] "GET /gfx/login.gif;bytes=7- HTTP/1.0" 404 803
> somewhere.com - - [16/Oct/1995:21:15:07 +0100] "GET /gfx/bar-name.gif;bytes=245- HTTP/1.0" 404 816
>
> I'm getting lots and lots of these each day. Looks like some browser is
> trying to use byte ranges (incorrectly) to get the end of partial
> transfers; Ouch!
Shit, I've gotten tons of them today.
I'm so angry I could scream. Seriously, I wish netscape would put a
*little* more thought into designing these things! The byterange
proposal is one I've argued against on http-wg, but who listens to me...
Brian
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