Google Gears API Blog: Gears and Standards

Google Gears API Blog: Gears and Standards

ContentRangePostProposal - google-gears - Google Code

Byte ranges are already standardized for GET requests, and there are implementations of byte-range PUT used by WebDAV, but to our knowledge there has been little effort to use them for POST. Byte-range POST/PUT could be used to resume incomplete transfers, or to explicitly break transfers into smaller sized chunks. We propose standardizing byte range POST/PUT in a manner analogous to byte range GET.