Multiple Range headers in an HTTP request

Dear all,

We knew that the latest blog post from Silvia is brilliant :-)
http://blog.gingertech.net/2009/09/08/uri-fragments-vs-uri-queries-for-media-fragment-addressing/

It has triggered some interesting discussions too (read the comments). 
One of them is the reason for my question. Philip Jägenstedt wrote
"I also would be surprised if there wasn’t a lot of server software that 
assumes that there will be at most 1 Range HTTP header and misbehaves 
otherwise."

A question for you Yves:
   - is it allowed to have multiple Range headers in a single HTTP request?
   - how the server is supposed to interpret it if this is the case?
     a) Ignore the Range request and serve the whole content
     b) Pick the first Range and serves it
     c) Pick a random Range among the ones specified and serves it
     d) Undefined :-(
Cheers.

   Raphaël

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Received on Thursday, 10 September 2009 08:20:56 UTC