[whatwg] Start position of media resources

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>> Note that in the Media Fragment working group even the specification
>> of http://www.example.com/t.mov#time="10s-20s" may mean that only the
>> requested 10s clip is delivered
>
> Since the part starting with '#' isn't sent as part of the HTTP GET request,
> I'm not sure how this is envisioned to work.
>
> Is there a change to HTTP planned here?

It will all be done within the HTTP, but by transforming the fragment
into a new fragment range request. So, there are additions to HTTP
that are within the scope of HTTP.

Cheers,
Silvia.