jvilk / BrowserFS

BrowserFS is an in-browser filesystem that emulates the Node JS filesystem API and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends.
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DownloadFS: Support HTTP Range Requests #219

Open jvilk opened 6 years ago

jvilk commented 6 years ago

For large files (100MB+), downloading and storing the entire file in-memory is prohibitively expensive, and may not be needed if only small parts of the file are needed.

It would be great to support HTTP range requests in both synchronous and asynchronous modes.

Some important questions:

I don't anticipate being able to work on this anytime soon, but I'm recording my thoughts here for now.

james-pre commented 8 months ago

Please use https://github.com/browser-fs/core/issues/13