Support for HTTP Range Request

[blyxa]

Is HTTP range request supported in Armeria?

I have a use case where I'm using com.linecorp.armeria.server.file.FileService to serve large video files. On the client side, ios/AVFoundation by default makes a HEAD and then a Range request. This is something I can't change on the client side, so I have to support Range request on the server side.

I dug around the source and github issues but only found mentions of HEAD support but FileService doesn't seem like it supports HEAD.

% curl -I  'http://localhost8080/videos/foo.mp4'
HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
content-length: 22
server: Armeria/1.33.1

Can someone point me in the right direction?

[jrhee17]

Hi, I don't think range headers are supported natively by FileService at the moment.

I do think a quick fix is for FileService to respond to a HEAD method with Accept-Ranges: none, indicating that ranged responses are not available and only the full response is available. Would this be helpful for your scenario?

Alternatively, I think we would be open to adding an API extension for supporting range queries in FileService as well. The design process will probably take longer though.

[blyxa]

I think HEAD response with Accept-Ranges: none is a good quick solution. Looks like, this should make AVFoundation/AVPlayer fallback to full download at the cost of disabled video seeking.

[ikhoon]

#6395 was merged, but since the range request isn’t implemented yet, I'll keep this issue open.