http-random-access

This module is deprecated - its has been functionally merged with random-access-http. Please use it instead.

An implementation of random-access-storage to access content via http/s. Providing the same interface as random-access-file and random-access-memory. This implementation is intended as a drop-in replacement for random-access-file or random-access-memory in the dat-storage configuration.

Installation

npm install http-random-access --save

Basic Example

var raHttp = require('http-random-access')
 
var file = raHttp('/readme.md', { url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/e-e-e/http-random-access/master/' })
 
file.read(100, 200, (err, data) => {
  if (err) {
    console.log('Something went wrong!')
    console.log(err)
    return
  }
  console.log(data.toString())
})

API

var file = raHttp(file, options)

Open a new random access http file connection.

Options include:

{
  url: string // The url of the dat
  verbose: boolean, // Optional. Default: false.
}

file.read(offset, length, callback)

Read a buffer at a specific offset of specified length. Callback is called with the read buffer or error if there was an error.

Expects callback of the form function (err, result) {}.

file.write(offset, buffer, callback)

Write is not implemented. This will silently fail with no data being writen.