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Support Range requests and 206 responses

Open seancribbs opened this issue 12 years ago • 0 comments

RFC 2616, Section 3.12

HTTP/1.1 allows a client to request that only part (a range of) the response entity be included within the response. HTTP/1.1 uses range units in the Range (section 14.35) and Content-Range (section 14.16) header fields. An entity can be broken down into subranges according to various structural units.

 range-unit       = bytes-unit | other-range-unit
 bytes-unit       = "bytes"
 other-range-unit = token

The only range unit defined by HTTP/1.1 is "bytes". HTTP/1.1 implementations MAY ignore ranges specified using other units.

HTTP/1.1 has been designed to allow implementations of applications that do not depend on knowledge of ranges.

References: 3.12 Range Units, 14.35 Range, 14.16 Content-Range, 14.27 If-Range

Note that according to 14.35.2, "A server MAY ignore the Range header.", so Webmachine is still compliant without this feature, but it is incredibly useful.

seancribbs avatar Jul 08 '12 17:07 seancribbs