Hello rclone community,
I'm currently exploring the possibility of mounting a file hosted remotely as if it were a locally hosted file. Specifically, I'm interested in accessing a single file from a large ZIP archive without downloading the entire archive. I've noticed that the Google Drive official desktop client supports opening ZIP files and extracting individual files without downloading everything, which is very convenient.
For instance, I can extract a 20MB file from a 25GB ZIP file stored on Google Drive using the official client. This functionality has caught my attention.
Now, I'm wondering if there's a way to achieve something similar by mounting a static URL, such as "https://somerandom.site/folder/this-is-40gb-file.zip". Ideally, I would like to mount this link as if it were a local file or directory, allowing me to open it with WinZip locally and extract specific files without the need to fully download the entire ZIP archive.
This approach would significantly save both time and bandwidth. I would appreciate any guidance on how to accomplish this.
Thank you!