Open Bug 899851 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Entries returned by the Necko cache aren't seekable

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: Cache
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: roc, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]) 

Entries returned by the Necko cache don't have the Accept-Ranges header, so media code treats them as non-seekable. I guess the Necko cache doesn't support range requests, so that makes sense, but it causes a big problem for the media code, which benefits from being able to do range requests. This creates the strange situation that non-cached responses work better than cached responses.

I'm not sure what we should do about this. It's not currently urgent.
its a good point and I'll throw it into the hopper as we decide what features to put on top of the more robust, cache honza and michal are building.
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]
Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258
Priority: -- → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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