Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Thu Sep 4 14:59:06 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m84Lx5mV027663 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:59:05 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m84LvBdT012952 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:57:11 -0700 Message-Id: <200809042157.m84LvBdT012952@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: CSCI 551: Question about warmup-1 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:57:11 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > I'm little confusing the GET command. Do we really need to copy the > specified file to our current directory, even offset also set? The server needs to send the content of the whole file (starting from the specified offset) over the connection. The client should not write the data to the disk. The client should calculate MD5 on-the-fly by calling MD5_Update() and discard the data. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu