Also, on the topic of range requests, when a server allows the range requests for zip files, the zip files are huge and one needs just a few files from them, on

Also, on the topic of range requests, when a server allows the range requests for zip files, the zip files are huge and one needs just a few files from them, one can actually download just the "central directory" and the compressed data of the needed files without downloading the whole zip file: https://github.com/gtsystem/python-remotezip https://github.com/gtsystem/python-remotezip