PRB: FTP Does Not Support InternetSetFilePointerLast reviewed: January 19, 1998Article ID: Q168408 |
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SYMPTOMSInternetSetFilePointer is wrongly documented as supporting FTP and Gopher protocols. In reality it is only supported for the HTTP protocol and only works for requests to servers that support the HTTP/1.1 "RANGE" header.
CAUSESupport for partial file download is contingent on both the client and the server. Because of a lack of FTP servers that support partial file downloads, no support for FTP was included for InternetSetFilePointer. The Gopher specification does not support partial file downloads.
STATUSThis behavior is by design. Keywords : AXSDKWinInet Technology : kbInetDev Version : Win:1.0,4.0,4.01 Platform : WINDOWS Issue type : kbprb |
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