#407: draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-21, "3.2 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable"

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On 24/10/2012, at 11:21 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-21.html#status.416>:
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> "When this status code is returned for a byte-range request, the response SHOULD include a Content-Range header field specifying the current length of the representation (see Section 5.2). This response MUST NOT use the multipart/byteranges content-type. For example,"
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> What is this "MUST NOT" about? Are there clients that will ignore the status code and assume success if they see the expected content-type?
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 

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