[UG] Re: [Yum] RFE: Yum 2.2.x Header Grabbing

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:27 -0400, Brian Long wrote:
> Seth et al,
> 
> Would it make sense to add a feature / work-around which would be a 
> fall-back mechanism when HTTP byte-range requests fail?  The only 
> work-around I see would be to download the entire RPM and strip off the 
> correct byte-range from the file instead of over HTTP.  Is this a 
> ridiculous request?

not really. Though I would recommend:
1. supporting the http 1.1 spec ;)
2. seeing if you can switch them to ftp, briefly.

Michael, Ryan,
 Do you remember what we had discussed/decided on wrt a fallback mode
for systems not supporting byte-ranges?

-sv