Re: Support for requests with byte ranges

Peter Conrad <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:35:34 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.publicfile
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:09:58AM +0200, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> 
> I just tried to resume a transfer of a large file from a publicfile 0.52
> httpd with curl 7.9.8 and got the errror message 
> 
> curl: (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot
> resume.
> 
> Is this basic, important feature (the Range: header) indeed not
> supported? Is it planned for an upcoming release? Are there patches to
> implement it? It is specified in RFC 2616 Â§ 14.35.2

someone posted a quite rudimentary patch to this list a while ago. You
can find it in the archives:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=publicfile&m=102389069301685&w=2

Bye,
	Peter
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