[rfc] [patch] pycurl transport

[Martin Pool]

On 13 Jan 2006, Denys Duchier <duchier at ps.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> 
> >> And http can't even seek.
> 
> you can use byte-range requests, e.g. with a request header like:
> 
> 	Range: bytes=231-7236

Right, so we could turn a 

   seek()
   read()

into a byte-range request.  But perhaps it would be better for Transport
callers to use something like a pread interface, where they give the
offset and length all in one go.

-- 
Martin
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