[whatwg] Handling unknown 'duration's

Robert O'Callahan robert at ocallahan.org
Sun Dec 19 14:50:13 PST 2010


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj at opera.com>wrote:

> Agreed, this is how I've interpreted the spec already. If a server replies
> with 200 OK instead of 206 Partial Content and the duration isn't in the
> header of the resource, then the duration is reported to be Infinity. If the
> resource eventually ends another durationchange event is fired and the
> duration is reported to be the (now known) length of the resource.
>

That sounds good to me. We'll probably do that. The spec will need to be
changed though.

Rob
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