[Python-Dev] Adding resume (206) support to urllib(2)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Oleg Broytmann schrieb:
>    IMO you better don't because urllib2 provides not only an abstraction,
> but a lot of services (authenticated proxies, cached FTP files)...

If you are using http ranges, cached FTP files won't do any good.
As for authenticated proxies: I think they ought to be implemented
in httplib as well.

If everybody wants to become urllib just a better library to access
http servers, I probably can't do much about it, though.

Regards,
Martin