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Re: clarity needed for browser behaviors when receiving 206 status codes

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:37:28 +0200
Message-ID: <4C24A308.8040701@gmx.de>
To: Marques Johansson <marques@displague.com>
CC: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org 
On 25.06.2010 13:47, Marques Johansson wrote:
> ...
> In this case, the server is not willing to accept an un-ranged request
> or range request for the "whole" resource. The server wants to give
> the user no more content then the user and host service have
> authorized.
> ...

So you have an HTTP resource that has different access rights based the 
range/length.

I don't think that HTTP range requests have been designed for this, and 
therefore you're seeing the issues you're seeing.

Best regards, Julian
Received on Friday, 25 June 2010 12:38:10 GMT

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