http-range – Tarik Billa

Difference between Content-Range and Range headers?

February 2, 2023 by Tarik

Actually, the accepted answer is not complete. Content-Range is not only used in responses. It is also legal in requests that provide an entity body. For example, an HTTP PUT provides an entity body, it might provide only a portion of an entity. Thus the PUT request can include a Content-Range header indicating to the … Read more

HTTP Range header

January 22, 2023 by Tarik

As Wrikken suggested, it’s a valid request. It’s also quite common when the client is requesting media or resuming a download. A client will often test to see if the server handles ranged requests other than just looking for an Accept-Ranges response. Chrome always sends a Range: bytes=0- with its first GET request for a … Read more