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 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!
If Drupal is put into “private” download mode, that is, where Drupal itself handles all file transfers through PHP, it can’t (by default) cater for progressive downloads. Now it can 🙂
Happy Drupalling!
Daniel
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