Re^3: Determining Content-Length when there is no Content-Length header


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Re^3: Determining Content-Length when there is no Content-Length header

by afoken (Chancellor)

on Apr 14, 2011 at 16:47 UTC ( [id://899478]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Nice idea, but not all web servers / web applications support byte ranges. I think the proper behaviour for a web server is to ignore the unknown / unsupported header and send the entire resource -- which is clearly not what the OP wanted. See also Re: Determining Content-Length when there is no Content-Length header

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