Re: Content-Range on responses other than 206

• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:17:14 +0200
• To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
• CC: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4E301DEA.6070904@gmx.de>

On 2011-07-26 21:47, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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> On 25/07/2011, at 10:38 PM, Yves Lafon wrote:
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>> It MUST be ignored when present in responses with other response code than 206 Partial Content [3.1].
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> This might be a bit too strong; I prefer saying that it doesn't have any meaning on other messages by default, so that if someone wants to specify a new status code where it does make sense, they can do so without revising HTTP (not that this is terribly likely, I know).

Sounds good.

Received on Wednesday, 27 July 2011 14:17:53 UTC