Re: If-Range Question

Addressed to: Alexei Kosut <akosut@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us>
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** Reply to note from Alexei Kosut <akosut@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us> 07/07/96  3:08pm -0700
> 
> If-Range and the other If-* headers won't be used together 99.9% of
> the time. See, here's the intended scenario (or something like it):
> 
> A server sends a browser the first 100 bytes of a 1000 byte
> document with an entity tag of "abc". But the connection gets broken
> and the browser wants to go back and get the rest of it. So it sends:
> 
> GET /foo HTTP/1.1
> Range: 100-999
> If-Range: "abc"

Ok. I see what I was reading now. I was reading the first paragraph
of 14.27 and thinking If-Range was meant as a modifier to only
a conditional GET using If-Unmodified-Since or If-Match.

I guess I just needed someone to point out the obvious.

thanks,

Paul




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Received on Sunday, 7 July 1996 17:52:58 UTC