Handling Large Blobs medium
To allow a user to 'seek' to the middle of a video without downloading the beginning, the server must support:
- A WebSocket.
- B FTP.
- C HTTP 206 Partial Content (Range Requests).
- D Flash Player.
Answer: C. HTTP 206 Partial Content (Range Requests).
The client sends `Range: bytes=5000-` and the server responds with the file starting at byte 5000.
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