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Hoi Hugo,

I'm now using apache for serving partial downloads (zsync). Is it possible to add this function to hiawatha as well?
I think that all websites with (large) downloads could benefit from this.


Info: http://labs.apache.org/webarch/http/draft-fielding-http/p5-range.html#status.416


ps. I see you use captha these days to prevent form spammers but re-capatha is better against bots + extra functions


Hiawatha version: latest
Operating System: Fortress Linux

Just a test Hugo:


<script>alert('hi')</script>
&#60;script&#62;alert('hi')&#60;/script&#62;

Hiawatha already supports partial downloads (for static files only).

The captcha is only an extra check. The real anti-spam filtering is done by the server. I receive a few hunderd spam messages per day. Only a few message per month get passed this filter. So, there is no need to update it.

And as you can see, this forum is well protected. XSS won't work here

Yes, is see. Very good to know. But what is your opinion about the partial download option?

Well, like I said: Hiawatha already supports partial downloads...

Hi Hugo,

Yes HW supports download continuing but it seem it doesn't work for partitial download requests (Range requests).

More information:
http://zsync.moria.org.uk/server-issues

I'll take a look at it. But Range HTTP headers are already implemented.

Thank you Hugo,

This makes it easier for me (and others) to provide ISO and software packages downloads. (Especially if i want to port Fortress Linux to mobile phones and tablets in the future. Bandwidth can be very expensive in some situations.)

I tried to add a test example in the last post, but it was seen as spam, so I've put it on my own website:

http://www.fortresslinux.org/download/hiawatha-partialdownload-test.txt

I'm away this weekend, so it will be next week I take a look at it.

I've taken a look at it. Hiawatha supports three kind of ranges: XX-XX, XX- and -XX. Multiple ranges (XX-XX,YY-YY,ZZ-ZZ) are not supported.

There was a bug in the -XX range: Hiawatha sends one byte too few. This will be fixed in the next release.

Very good to hear.

Maybe Hiawatha will support multiple ranges in the the future. But unfortunatly I'm stuck with Apache for a while. Atleast they always include the kitchen sink, a build-it-yourself manual and a few important components are always missing or buggy.

Apache is not a kitchen or product of the Ikea.. is it?

Well, their similarity is that a year after installation, things start to become rusty and wonky...