I am trying to download the buffer of file into 5 threads but it seems like it's getting garbled. from numpy import arange import requests from threading import Thread import urllib2 url = 'http:...

I was reading http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35 and trying to figure out how to continue a file download. For example, suppose a file is of length 100 bytes and I have...

What "Range: bytes=0-" header means ? Is the entire file ? I tried sending back 0 bytes and is not working, when I send the entire file it works, but I receive this request more than once...

I am currently making a video streaming service where the video is transcoded in chunks of roughly 1MB each. The HTML5 player of Firefox, Chrome and IE all try their best to request partial content...

I have a website which I use to stream audio files. Mainly, MP3 & OGG. Since few months, I handle myself (PHP) the steaming part (before it was apache2). First I do a normal 200 OK response wit...

Before starting a Range request, I first check if it is supported using a HEAD request. Normally I get back something like this: curl -X HEAD -i http://bits.wikimedia.org/images/wikimedia-button.pn...

I create a ZIP archive on-the-fly of unknown length from existing material (using Node), which is already compressed. In the ZIP archive, files just get stored; the ZIP is only used to have a singl...

I have an application which intended to stream videos back from our local DB. I spent a lot of time yesterday attempting to return the data a either a RangeFileContentResult or RangeFileStreamResul...

What is the difference between HTTP headers Content-Range and Range? When should each be used? I am trying to stream an audio file from a particular byte offset. Should I use Content-Range or Range...