Re: range header query

On fre, 2007-09-28 at 13:32 +0000, srirama chandra sekhar wrote:

> I have a query on "Range" header usage. Can "Range" header be applied
> for a resource which is having "Transfer-enoding: chunked" header?

Yes.

Range applies on the requested entity as such, before transfer encoding.

transfer-encoding is purely a transfer property added to the HTTP
message when it is sent, not a resource property. It's still the same
entity no matter how much you add/remove transfer encodings (including
compression).

Note that this is very different from Content-Encoding which is a direct
property of the entity/resource, and for Content-Encoding Range applies
to the encoded entity.

Regards
Henrik

Received on Saturday, 29 September 2007 03:41:28 UTC