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Re: What to do on byte ranges?

From: M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:59:56 -0700
Message-Id: <v02120d00acb5d0c0393c@[204.156.156.16]>
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>, Martijn Koster <m.koster@webcrawler.com>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 3:46 PM 10/26/95, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>> We noticed clients are sending out requests with byte ranges,
>> on GIF's etc. Apache takes them as part of the filename, as
>> the CERN httpd reportedly does also, and the request fails.
>> ...
>> So, what is the correct response?
>
>404 Not Found
>
>The problem is a bug in Netscape Navigator 2.0b1.  I do hope that
>the next beta is tested against servers other than Netsite.

I'm seeing the same errors with Netsite.

M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
Received on Thursday, 26 October 1995 17:01:57 UTC

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