Re: [whatwg/fetch] Allow range header to be set by APIs (#560)

> `new Audio("/path/to/media#t=30,60")` makes range request, yes?

It does, but the requests should look roughly the same as when you do this:
```JavaScript
var audio = new Audio("/path/to/media")`
audio.currentTime = 30;
audio.play();
audio.ontimeupdate = function() {
  if (audio.currentTime >= 60)
    audio.pause();
}
```
That's actually fairly close to how this is implemented. The media fragment is handled in the media element code, not at any lower level.

If you want the server to do some of the work in slicing out 30-60 seconds, thenhttps://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/#URIquery-media-fragments might be what you're looking for, but that then requires a clever server to interpret "/path/to/media?t=30,60".

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