[SLL] seeking Web-based pager / log file viewer

[Robert Woodcock]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:24:13AM -0700, Phil Mocek wrote:
> I need to make some log files available via HTTP, and simply
> pointing the Web server at them is not going to work, as I don't
> want to send the whole file every time.

That actually will work.

It's not line-number oriented, but HTTP has a Range: header that lets the
client specify to the server what part of the file you want to grab. 

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35

Wget can specify arbitrary HTTP headers with the --header option.
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