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Re:The modern web is becoming unusable by bmn__ on Saturday December 21, 2019 @12:59PM (#21852437)
That's already in HTTP/1.1, the Range header comes with units. The standard defined "bytes", but a Web developer can also use more granular units, for example "items". (See <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters#range-units>...) I've seen that in the wild a couple of times in the context of JSON based request/response pairs.
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Re:The modern web is becoming unusable by zzo38computer on Saturday December 21, 2019 @02:17PM (#21852820)
I was aware that the Range header has units; I did not know of any units other than "bytes", though.
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