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maccard on April 12, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: You might not need WebSockets

If you stick:

  <video controls>
    <source src="/video/sample.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    Your browser does not support the video tag.
  </video>

into a html file, and run it against this pastebin [0], you'll see that chrome (and safari) both do range requests out of the box if the fileis big enough.

[0] https://pastebin.com/MyUfiwYE

wordofx on April 12, 2025 [–]

Tried it on a 800mb file. Single request.

maccard on April 13, 2025 | [–]

I tried it on 4 different files, and in each case my browser sent a request, my server responded with a 206 and it grabbed chunks as it went.

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