Even Rouault

> but it would be nice for developers to have it on the build page. can you contribute a document enhancement for that?

> Thus the extra test is quite expensive I haven't measured the perf impact, but the only significant impact I would anticipate would only be in loops where you would...

Closing, as superseded per https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/9285

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/3060 discussed that (more specifically for Linux), but my thoughts in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/3060#issuecomment-719794405 also apply

> Would it be reasonable for GDAL to be tolerant of these incoherences? Could make sense. The driver, as currently written due to the hypothesis taken on the file structure,...

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some linting issues remaining: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/actions/runs/7308961912/job/19916097431?pr=8995 cf my comment https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8995#issuecomment-1868266258 how to solve them automatically

Things look good to me. Hopefully @landam can give it some review too

OK, I'm merging this... There are likely potential optimizations like the one I suggested in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/8995#pullrequestreview-1866404386 , but this should be good enough as it for now.

Apparently, according to https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_RANGE.html, sftp:// should support range requests, so that's a good precondition. Why it doesn't work? I don't know. Would require debugging... Well possible that there are some...