draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-21, "3.2 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable" from Julian Reschke on 2012-10-24 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from October to December 2012)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:21:03 +0200
To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <5087DD2F.7000303@gmx.de>

<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-21.html#status.416>:

"When this status code is returned for a byte-range request, the 
response SHOULD include a Content-Range header field specifying the 
current length of the representation (see Section 5.2). This response 
MUST NOT use the multipart/byteranges content-type. For example,"

What is this "MUST NOT" about? Are there clients that will ignore the 
status code and assume success if they see the expected content-type?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2012 12:21:35 UTC