Issue: Discovery cannot be streamed anymore
State: closed
Labels: name: bug

## Describe the bug
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

## Steps to reproduce the bug
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
iterable_dataset = load_dataset("discovery", name="discovery", split="train", streaming=True)
list(iterable_dataset.take(1))
```

## Expected results

The first row of the train split.

## Actual results

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 365, in __iter__
    for key, example in self._iter():
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 362, in _iter
    yield from ex_iterable
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 272, in __iter__
    yield from islice(self.ex_iterable, self.n)
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 79, in __iter__
    yield from self.generate_examples_fn(**self.kwargs)
  File "/home/slesage/.cache/huggingface/modules/datasets_modules/datasets/discovery/542fab7a9ddc1d9726160355f7baa06a1ccc44c40bc8e12c09e9bc743aca43a2/discovery.py", line 333, in _generate_examples
    with open(data_file, encoding="utf8") as f:
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/streaming.py", line 64, in wrapper
    return function(*args, use_auth_token=use_auth_token, **kwargs)
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/utils/streaming_download_manager.py", line 369, in xopen
    file_obj = fsspec.open(file, mode=mode, *args, **kwargs).open()
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fsspec/core.py", line 456, in open
    return open_files(
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fsspec/core.py", line 288, in open_files
    fs, fs_token, paths = get_fs_token_paths(
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fsspec/core.py", line 611, in get_fs_token_paths
    fs = filesystem(protocol, **inkwargs)
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fsspec/registry.py", line 253, in filesystem
    return cls(**storage_options)
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fsspec/spec.py", line 68, in __call__
    obj = super().__call__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fsspec/implementations/zip.py", line 57, in __init__
    self.zip = zipfile.ZipFile(self.fo)
  File "/home/slesage/.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/zipfile.py", line 1257, in __init__
    self._RealGetContents()
  File "/home/slesage/.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/zipfile.py", line 1320, in _RealGetContents
    endrec = _EndRecData(fp)
  File "/home/slesage/.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/zipfile.py", line 263, in _EndRecData
    fpin.seek(0, 2)
  File "/home/slesage/hf/datasets-preview-backend/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fsspec/implementations/http.py", line 676, in seek
    raise ValueError("Cannot seek streaming HTTP file")
ValueError: Cannot seek streaming HTTP file
```

## Environment info

- `datasets` version: 1.18.3
- Platform: Linux-5.11.0-1027-aws-x86_64-with-glibc2.31
- Python version: 3.9.6
- PyArrow version: 6.0.1


Seems like a regression from https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/2843

Or maybe it's an issue with the hosting. I don't think so, though, because https://www.dropbox.com/s/aox84z90nyyuikz/discovery.zip seems to work as expected



Hi @severo, thanks for reporting.

Some servers do not support HTTP range requests, and those are required to stream some file formats (like ZIP in this case).

Let me try to propose a workaround.