From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 23:00:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] http.c: use CURLOPT_RANGE for range requests
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1511012359150.24283@tvnag.unkk.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20151031000837.GA25849@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, Jeff King wrote:

> The goal makes sense. Why weren't we using CURLOPT_RANGE before? Did it not 
> exist (or otherwise have limitations) in 2005, and if so, when did it become 
> usable? Do we need to protect this with an #ifdef for the curl version?

CURLOPT_RANGE existed already in the first libcurl release: version 7.1, 
relased in August 2000.

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