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welp I'm now learning the hard way why it is that video streaming is actually really hard(or maybe just annoying).

Serving small video files is no problem however for large amounts of video data you basically have to send chunks at a time. Especially if you're planning on letting people seek to different parts in a video. 206 partial responses are great for this sort of thing but:

>rocket.rs doesn't have support for Range headers
>Nginx support for range headers is shoddy at best

I guess its time to write my own handlers for range headers wew

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