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Add Range header to varnishkafka
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Description

For requests to partial content (like skipping in videos), the Range
header helps to find the request for the beginning of a resource.

This is valuable when trying to tell apart starting a video stream,
and seeking in a video stream, which improves quality of counting
media file requests.

It is typically empty, hence does not add much to the average message
length.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz73021

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:49 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz73021.
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Change 171267 had a related patch set uploaded by QChris:
Add Range header to webrequest table

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/171267

Change 171268 had a related patch set uploaded by QChris:
Make varnishkafka pick up Range header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/171268

Change 171267 merged by Ottomata:
Add Range header to webrequest table

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/171267

Change 171268 merged by Ottomata:
Make varnishkafka pick up Range header

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/171268