How to grab a part of web page?

William Park opengeometry at NOSPAM.yahoo.ca
Wed Jul 10 01:43:17 EDT 2002


Gerhard H?ring <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> wrote:
>> I think it's possible.  When I use 'wget -c' to download HTML, sometimes
>> I see it start from an offset, rather than from the beginning.
> 
> Doing this while having a packet sniffer running showed me what the
> corresponding HTTP header is.

>From the docs that I came across,

    HTTP/1.1:
	- "Range" header in request
	- "multipart/byteranges" type in the response

    Older HTTP:
	- "Request-Range" header
	- "multipart/x-byteranges" type

but the exact syntax I don't remember.

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