Re: returning results for partial downloads

A straight-forward proposal for partial result support:
http://www.limewire.org/wiki/index.php?title=PartialSearchResults

On Oct 5, 2007 1:21 PM, Zlatin Balevsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christian suggested that it would help rare file distribution if
> search results are returned for partial downloads.  After a little
> deliberation, it seems like this idea is very feasible.  The results
> will have to contain the bitprint and the ranges which have been
> successfully verified.  On the receiving side, clients can use the
> range information to determine if the entire file is available over
> the network and use that to decide if the result should be displayed.
>
> Comments?
>