Is Content-Range extensible?

• From: Subbu Allamaraju <subbu.allamaraju@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:17:05 -0800
• To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <D7E38ED2-283F-470C-9D1D-E3A34288329C@gmail.com>

Per the BNF in 14.16, Content-Range is restricted to describing byte  
ranges. However, 3.12 leaves the door a bit open by stating that  
"implementations MAY ignore ranges specified using other units". Some  
examples of other ranges are

Content-Range: items 10-19
Content-Range: items <some-query>

Does 3.12 imply that such ranges are valid?

Thanks for any guidance.

Subbu

Received on Thursday, 14 February 2008 22:17:02 UTC