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Graham Klyne <GK(_at_)dial(_dot_)pipex(_dot_)com> writes:
But I wonder if there isn't a real problem out there in parts of the world
where Internet bandwidth is considerably less plentiful and reliable than
most of us have come to expect. Mobile devices would be another case in point.
People who dial up on slow telephone lines is another case in point
(though such people tend not to use SMTP directly).
I think the interesting nugget in this draft is the idea that an SMTP
client may request retransmission of a partially transmitted message in a
new SMTP session, and if the server is prepared to continue a previous
transaction it provides information about the point from which
retransmission should continue.
The HTTP Protocol (RFC2616) has a feature (the Range: header) for handling
transmission of parts of files, though browsers (well certainly Netscape)
do not seem to use it. I am currently hacking some Perl to use this
feature in downloading large documents
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