On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:27:49 -0800, EP wrote: > >> 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)?
I posted a followup already to your previous message, I just changed the subject since it no longer applied, and it is the type of thing one would google for. (Those need proper subjects.) See: "Retrieving the last bit Re: File objects? - under the hood question". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
