- From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:47:08 +0100
- To: Mihail <hej@hot.ee>
- Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Mihail wrote:
> My question is whether the server has authority to specify
> Content-Range without the client's Range request and still hope that
> the content will be fully recieved?
From RFC 2616:
10.2.7 206 Partial Content
The server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource.
The request MUST have included a Range header field (section 14.35)
indicating the desired range, and MAY have included an If-Range
header field (section 14.27) to make the request conditional.
Note the MUST. If the request doesn't include the Range header, than
you must not issue a 206 response. This is obvious, as many clients
don't understand Range at all.
-- Jamie
Received on Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:47:19 UTC