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abi on March 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: PeerCDN: WebRTC-based peer-to-peer CDN [video]

Yes, that's exactly how the fallback will work. You can download content from 1 or more peers. If all the other peers disconnect, then it'll fallback to the origin HTTP server and fetch the remaining bits using RANGE requests. There are a whole bunch of reliability checks to ensure that files are downloaded correctly, completely and as fast as possible (re-downloading as few chunks as possible or not at all).

splitrocket on March 28, 2013 [–]

Will my server have to support RANGE requests for all accelerated assets?

feross on March 30, 2013 | [–]

Yep, your server will need to support Range requests. If it doesn't, then assets will just load over HTTP normally.

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