HTTP Random Access and Live Content
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HTTP Working Group C. Pratt
Internet-Draft CableLabs
Intended status: Experimental B. Stark
Expires: September 8, 2017 AT&T
D. Thakore
CableLabs
March 7, 2017
HTTP Random Access and Live Content
draft-ietf-httpbis-rand-access-live-00
Abstract
To accommodate byte range requests for content that has data appended
over time, this document defines semantics that allow a HTTP client
and server to perform byte-range GET and HEAD requests that start at
an arbitrary byte offset within the representation and ends at an
indeterminate offset.
Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor before publication)
Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPBIS working group
mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/>.
Working Group information can be found at <http://httpwg.github.io/>;
source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
<https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/labels/rand-access-live>.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Performing Range requests on Random-Access Aggregating
("live") Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Establishing the Randomly Accessible Byte Range . . . . . 4
2.2. Byte-Range Requests Beyond the Randomly Accessible Byte
Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3. Byte-Range Responses Beyond the Randomly Accessible Byte
Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Other Applications of Random-Access Aggregating Content . . . 6
3.1. Requests Starting at the Aggregation ("Live") Point . . . 6
3.2. Shift Buffer Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Appendix A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1. Introduction
Some Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Clients use byte-range
requests (Range requests using the "bytes" Range Unit) to transfer
select portions of large representations. And in some cases large
representations require content to be continuously or periodically
appended - such as representations consisting of live audio or video
sources, blockchain databases, and log files. Clients cannot access
the appended/live content using a Range request with the bytes range
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