> My brain-teaser: What I'd like to do is read the last ~2K of a large > number of large files on arbitrary servers across the net, without > having to read each file from the beginning (which would be slow and > resource inefficient)... >
Proper googling would have revealed that HTTP 1.1 includes a Range Request. My bad. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html Before I reinvent the wheel (and make it a little squarer than it has to be) has anyone seen a "cookbook" recipe for adding the HTTP 1.1 range request to a urllib urlopener (or something similar)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
