Scavenger
01-20-2009, 04:12 PM
Just a quick one to let anyone using Drupal know that it *is* possible to serve files using HTTP_RANGE!
After a little bit of digging around, Andrea and I found this (http://drupal.org/node/91934#comment-462216) patch file (attached to this post), which allows Drupal 5 to serve files to range-supporting clients.
Why bother with this post? Well, the iPhone doesn't support file-downloading, nor does it support multimedia file-streaming, but it does support progressive download via http!
read more (http://mobiforge.com/community/blog/drupal-5-progressive-downloads-private-mode)
More... (http://mobiforge.com/community/blog/drupal-5-progressive-downloads-private-mode)
After a little bit of digging around, Andrea and I found this (http://drupal.org/node/91934#comment-462216) patch file (attached to this post), which allows Drupal 5 to serve files to range-supporting clients.
Why bother with this post? Well, the iPhone doesn't support file-downloading, nor does it support multimedia file-streaming, but it does support progressive download via http!
read more (http://mobiforge.com/community/blog/drupal-5-progressive-downloads-private-mode)
More... (http://mobiforge.com/community/blog/drupal-5-progressive-downloads-private-mode)