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372 | <link rel="Copyright" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice"> |
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373 | <link rel="Index" href="#rfc.index"> |
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374 | <link rel="Chapter" title="1 Introduction" href="#rfc.section.1"> |
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375 | <link rel="Chapter" title="2 Range Units" href="#rfc.section.2"> |
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376 | <link rel="Chapter" title="3 Status Code Definitions" href="#rfc.section.3"> |
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377 | <link rel="Chapter" title="4 Combining Ranges" href="#rfc.section.4"> |
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378 | <link rel="Chapter" title="5 Header Field Definitions" href="#rfc.section.5"> |
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379 | <link rel="Chapter" title="6 IANA Considerations" href="#rfc.section.6"> |
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380 | <link rel="Chapter" title="7 Security Considerations" href="#rfc.section.7"> |
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381 | <link rel="Chapter" title="8 Acknowledgments" href="#rfc.section.8"> |
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382 | <link rel="Chapter" href="#rfc.section.9" title="9 References"> |
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383 | <link rel="Appendix" title="A Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges" href="#rfc.section.A"> |
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384 | <link rel="Appendix" title="B Compatibility with Previous Versions" href="#rfc.section.B"> |
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385 | <link rel="Appendix" title="C Collected ABNF" href="#rfc.section.C"> |
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386 | <link rel="Appendix" title="D Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)" href="#rfc.section.D"> |
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389 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Fielding, R."> |
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393 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Masinter, L."> |
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394 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Leach, P."> |
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395 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Berners-Lee, T."> |
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396 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Lafon, Y."> |
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397 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F."> |
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398 | <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-06"> |
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399 | <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2009-03-09"> |
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400 | <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616"> |
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401 | <meta name="dct.abstract" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 5 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 5 defines range-specific requests and the rules for constructing and combining responses to those requests."> |
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402 | <meta name="description" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 5 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 5 defines range-specific requests and the rules for constructing and combining responses to those requests."> |
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405 | <table class="header"> |
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406 | <tbody> |
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407 | <tr> |
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408 | <td class="left">HTTPbis Working Group</td> |
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409 | <td class="right">R. Fielding, Editor</td> |
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410 | </tr> |
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411 | <tr> |
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412 | <td class="left">Internet-Draft</td> |
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413 | <td class="right">Day Software</td> |
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414 | </tr> |
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415 | <tr> |
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416 | <td class="left">Obsoletes: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616">2616</a> (if approved) |
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417 | </td> |
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418 | <td class="right">J. Gettys</td> |
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419 | </tr> |
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420 | <tr> |
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421 | <td class="left">Intended status: Standards Track</td> |
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422 | <td class="right">One Laptop per Child</td> |
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423 | </tr> |
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424 | <tr> |
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425 | <td class="left">Expires: September 10, 2009</td> |
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426 | <td class="right">J. Mogul</td> |
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427 | </tr> |
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428 | <tr> |
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429 | <td class="left"></td> |
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430 | <td class="right">HP</td> |
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431 | </tr> |
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434 | <td class="right">H. Frystyk</td> |
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435 | </tr> |
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436 | <tr> |
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437 | <td class="left"></td> |
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438 | <td class="right">Microsoft</td> |
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439 | </tr> |
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440 | <tr> |
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441 | <td class="left"></td> |
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442 | <td class="right">L. Masinter</td> |
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443 | </tr> |
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444 | <tr> |
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445 | <td class="left"></td> |
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446 | <td class="right">Adobe Systems</td> |
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447 | </tr> |
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448 | <tr> |
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449 | <td class="left"></td> |
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450 | <td class="right">P. Leach</td> |
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451 | </tr> |
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452 | <tr> |
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453 | <td class="left"></td> |
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454 | <td class="right">Microsoft</td> |
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455 | </tr> |
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456 | <tr> |
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457 | <td class="left"></td> |
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458 | <td class="right">T. Berners-Lee</td> |
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459 | </tr> |
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460 | <tr> |
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461 | <td class="left"></td> |
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462 | <td class="right">W3C/MIT</td> |
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463 | </tr> |
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464 | <tr> |
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465 | <td class="left"></td> |
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466 | <td class="right">Y. Lafon, Editor</td> |
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467 | </tr> |
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468 | <tr> |
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469 | <td class="left"></td> |
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470 | <td class="right">W3C</td> |
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471 | </tr> |
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472 | <tr> |
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473 | <td class="left"></td> |
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474 | <td class="right">J. Reschke, Editor</td> |
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475 | </tr> |
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476 | <tr> |
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477 | <td class="left"></td> |
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478 | <td class="right">greenbytes</td> |
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479 | </tr> |
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480 | <tr> |
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481 | <td class="left"></td> |
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482 | <td class="right">March 9, 2009</td> |
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483 | </tr> |
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484 | </tbody> |
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485 | </table> |
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486 | <p class="title">HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses<br><span class="filename">draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-06</span></p> |
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487 | <h1><a id="rfc.status" href="#rfc.status">Status of this Memo</a></h1> |
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488 | <p>This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. This document may contain |
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489 | material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) |
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490 | controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of |
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491 | such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the |
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492 | copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of |
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493 | it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it |
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494 | into languages other than English. |
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495 | </p> |
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496 | <p>Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note |
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497 | that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. |
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498 | </p> |
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499 | <p>Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other |
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500 | documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as “work |
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501 | in progress”. |
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502 | </p> |
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503 | <p>The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt">http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt</a>. |
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504 | </p> |
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505 | <p>The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at <a href="http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html">http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html</a>. |
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506 | </p> |
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507 | <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on September 10, 2009.</p> |
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508 | <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1> |
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509 | <p>Copyright © 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p> |
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510 | <p>This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date |
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511 | of publication of this document (<a href="http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info">http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info</a>). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. |
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512 | </p> |
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513 | <h1 id="rfc.abstract"><a href="#rfc.abstract">Abstract</a></h1> |
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514 | <p>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information |
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515 | systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 5 of the |
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516 | seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part |
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517 | 5 defines range-specific requests and the rules for constructing and combining responses to those requests. |
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518 | </p> |
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519 | <h1 id="rfc.note.1"><a href="#rfc.note.1">Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)</a></h1> |
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520 | <p>Discussion of this draft should take place on the HTTPBIS working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org). The current issues |
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521 | list is at <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/11">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/11</a>> and related documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/</a>>. |
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522 | </p> |
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523 | <p>The changes in this draft are summarized in <a href="#changes.since.05" title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-05">Appendix D.7</a>. |
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524 | </p> |
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525 | <hr class="noprint"> |
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526 | <h1 class="np" id="rfc.toc"><a href="#rfc.toc">Table of Contents</a></h1> |
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527 | <ul class="toc"> |
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528 | <li>1. <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a><ul> |
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529 | <li>1.1 <a href="#intro.requirements">Requirements</a></li> |
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530 | <li>1.2 <a href="#notation">Syntax Notation</a><ul> |
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531 | <li>1.2.1 <a href="#core.rules">Core Rules</a></li> |
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532 | <li>1.2.2 <a href="#abnf.dependencies">ABNF Rules defined in other Parts of the Specification</a></li> |
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533 | </ul> |
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534 | </li> |
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535 | </ul> |
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536 | </li> |
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537 | <li>2. <a href="#range.units">Range Units</a></li> |
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538 | <li>3. <a href="#rfc.section.3">Status Code Definitions</a><ul> |
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539 | <li>3.1 <a href="#status.206">206 Partial Content</a></li> |
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540 | <li>3.2 <a href="#status.416">416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable</a></li> |
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541 | </ul> |
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542 | </li> |
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543 | <li>4. <a href="#combining.byte.ranges">Combining Ranges</a></li> |
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544 | <li>5. <a href="#header.fields">Header Field Definitions</a><ul> |
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545 | <li>5.1 <a href="#header.accept-ranges">Accept-Ranges</a></li> |
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546 | <li>5.2 <a href="#header.content-range">Content-Range</a></li> |
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547 | <li>5.3 <a href="#header.if-range">If-Range</a></li> |
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548 | <li>5.4 <a href="#header.range">Range</a><ul> |
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549 | <li>5.4.1 <a href="#byte.ranges">Byte Ranges</a></li> |
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550 | <li>5.4.2 <a href="#range.retrieval.requests">Range Retrieval Requests</a></li> |
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551 | </ul> |
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552 | </li> |
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553 | </ul> |
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554 | </li> |
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555 | <li>6. <a href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a><ul> |
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556 | <li>6.1 <a href="#message.header.registration">Message Header Registration</a></li> |
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557 | </ul> |
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558 | </li> |
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559 | <li>7. <a href="#security.considerations">Security Considerations</a></li> |
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560 | <li>8. <a href="#ack">Acknowledgments</a></li> |
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561 | <li>9. <a href="#rfc.references">References</a><ul> |
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562 | <li>9.1 <a href="#rfc.references.1">Normative References</a></li> |
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563 | <li>9.2 <a href="#rfc.references.2">Informative References</a></li> |
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564 | </ul> |
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565 | </li> |
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566 | <li><a href="#rfc.authors">Authors' Addresses</a></li> |
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567 | <li>A. <a href="#internet.media.type.multipart.byteranges">Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges</a></li> |
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568 | <li>B. <a href="#compatibility">Compatibility with Previous Versions</a><ul> |
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569 | <li>B.1 <a href="#changes.from.rfc.2068">Changes from RFC 2068</a></li> |
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570 | <li>B.2 <a href="#changes.from.rfc.2616">Changes from RFC 2616</a></li> |
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571 | </ul> |
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572 | </li> |
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573 | <li>C. <a href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></li> |
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574 | <li>D. <a href="#change.log">Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)</a><ul> |
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575 | <li>D.1 <a href="#rfc.section.D.1">Since RFC2616</a></li> |
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576 | <li>D.2 <a href="#rfc.section.D.2">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-00</a></li> |
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577 | <li>D.3 <a href="#rfc.section.D.3">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-01</a></li> |
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578 | <li>D.4 <a href="#changes.since.02">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-02</a></li> |
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579 | <li>D.5 <a href="#changes.since.03">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-03</a></li> |
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580 | <li>D.6 <a href="#changes.since.04">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-04</a></li> |
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581 | <li>D.7 <a href="#changes.since.05">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-05</a></li> |
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582 | </ul> |
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583 | </li> |
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584 | <li><a href="#rfc.index">Index</a></li> |
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585 | </ul> |
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586 | <h1 id="rfc.section.1" class="np"><a href="#rfc.section.1">1.</a> <a id="introduction" href="#introduction">Introduction</a></h1> |
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587 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.1">HTTP clients often encounter interrupted data transfers as a result of cancelled requests or dropped connections. When a cache |
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588 | has stored a partial representation, it is desirable to request the remainder of that representation in a subsequent request |
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589 | rather than transfer the entire representation. There are also a number of Web applications that benefit from being able to |
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590 | request only a subset of a larger representation, such as a single page of a very large document or only part of an image |
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591 | to be rendered by a device with limited local storage. |
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592 | </p> |
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593 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.2">This document defines HTTP/1.1 range requests, partial responses, and the multipart/byteranges media type. The protocol for |
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594 | range requests is an <em class="bcp14">OPTIONAL</em> feature of HTTP, designed so resources or recipients that do not implement this feature can respond as if it is a normal GET |
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595 | request without impacting interoperability. Partial responses are indicated by a distinct status code to not be mistaken for |
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596 | full responses by intermediate caches that might not implement the feature. |
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597 | </p> |
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598 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.3">Although the HTTP range request mechanism is designed to allow for extensible range types, this specification only defines |
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599 | requests for byte ranges. |
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600 | </p> |
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601 | <h2 id="rfc.section.1.1"><a href="#rfc.section.1.1">1.1</a> <a id="intro.requirements" href="#intro.requirements">Requirements</a></h2> |
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602 | <p id="rfc.section.1.1.p.1">The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" |
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603 | in this document are to be interpreted as described in <a href="#RFC2119" id="rfc.xref.RFC2119.1"><cite title="Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels">[RFC2119]</cite></a>. |
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604 | </p> |
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605 | <p id="rfc.section.1.1.p.2">An implementation is not compliant if it fails to satisfy one or more of the <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> or <em class="bcp14">REQUIRED</em> level requirements for the protocols it implements. An implementation that satisfies all the <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> or <em class="bcp14">REQUIRED</em> level and all the <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> level requirements for its protocols is said to be "unconditionally compliant"; one that satisfies all the <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> level requirements but not all the <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> level requirements for its protocols is said to be "conditionally compliant." |
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606 | </p> |
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607 | <h2 id="rfc.section.1.2"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2">1.2</a> <a id="notation" href="#notation">Syntax Notation</a></h2> |
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608 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.p.1">This specification uses the ABNF syntax defined in <a href="p1-messaging.html#notation" title="Syntax Notation">Section 1.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a> (which extends the syntax defined in <a href="#RFC5234" id="rfc.xref.RFC5234.1"><cite title="Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF">[RFC5234]</cite></a> with a list rule). <a href="#collected.abnf" title="Collected ABNF">Appendix C</a> shows the collected ABNF, with the list rule expanded. |
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609 | </p> |
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610 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.p.2">The following core rules are included by reference, as defined in <a href="#RFC5234" id="rfc.xref.RFC5234.2"><cite title="Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF">[RFC5234]</cite></a>, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234#appendix-B.1">Appendix B.1</a>: ALPHA (letters), CR (carriage return), CRLF (CR LF), CTL (controls), DIGIT (decimal 0-9), DQUOTE (double quote), HEXDIG |
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611 | (hexadecimal 0-9/A-F/a-f), LF (line feed), OCTET (any 8-bit sequence of data), SP (space), VCHAR (any visible USASCII character), |
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612 | and WSP (whitespace). |
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613 | </p> |
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614 | <h3 id="rfc.section.1.2.1"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2.1">1.2.1</a> <a id="core.rules" href="#core.rules">Core Rules</a></h3> |
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615 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.1.p.1">The core rules below are defined in <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.2"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>: |
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616 | </p> |
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617 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.1"></div><pre class="inline"> <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> = <token, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.3"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a>> |
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618 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> = <OWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.4"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a>> |
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619 | </pre><h3 id="rfc.section.1.2.2"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2.2">1.2.2</a> <a id="abnf.dependencies" href="#abnf.dependencies">ABNF Rules defined in other Parts of the Specification</a></h3> |
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620 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.2.p.1">The ABNF rules below are defined in other parts:</p> |
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621 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.2"></div><pre class="inline"> <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> = <HTTP-date, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.5"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#full.date" title="Full Date">Section 3.2.1</a>> |
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622 | </pre><div id="rfc.figure.u.3"></div><pre class="inline"> <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> = <entity-tag, defined in <a href="#Part4" id="rfc.xref.Part4.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests">[Part4]</cite></a>, <a href="p4-conditional.html#entity.tags" title="Entity Tags">Section 2</a>> |
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623 | </pre><h1 id="rfc.section.2"><a href="#rfc.section.2">2.</a> <a id="range.units" href="#range.units">Range Units</a></h1> |
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624 | <p id="rfc.section.2.p.1">HTTP/1.1 allows a client to request that only part (a range of) the response entity be included within the response. HTTP/1.1 |
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625 | uses range units in the Range (<a href="#header.range" id="rfc.xref.header.range.1" title="Range">Section 5.4</a>) and Content-Range (<a href="#header.content-range" id="rfc.xref.header.content-range.1" title="Content-Range">Section 5.2</a>) header fields. An entity can be broken down into subranges according to various structural units. |
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626 | </p> |
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627 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.4"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.1"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.2"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.3"></span> <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">range-unit</a> = <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">bytes-unit</a> / <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">other-range-unit</a> |
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628 | <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">bytes-unit</a> = "bytes" |
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629 | <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">other-range-unit</a> = <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> |
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630 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.2.p.3">HTTP/1.1 has been designed to allow implementations of applications that do not depend on knowledge of ranges. The only range |
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631 | unit defined by HTTP/1.1 is "bytes". |
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632 | </p> |
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633 | <p id="rfc.section.2.p.4">If a range unit is not understood in a request, a server <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> ignore the whole Range header (<a href="#header.range" id="rfc.xref.header.range.2" title="Range">Section 5.4</a>). If a range unit is not understood in a response, an intermediary <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> pass the response to the client; a client <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> fail. |
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634 | </p> |
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635 | <h1 id="rfc.section.3"><a href="#rfc.section.3">3.</a> Status Code Definitions |
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636 | </h1> |
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637 | <div id="rfc.iref.3"></div> |
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638 | <div id="rfc.iref.s.1"></div> |
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639 | <h2 id="rfc.section.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.3.1">3.1</a> <a id="status.206" href="#status.206">206 Partial Content</a></h2> |
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640 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.1">The server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource. The request <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> have included a Range header field (<a href="#header.range" id="rfc.xref.header.range.3" title="Range">Section 5.4</a>) indicating the desired range, and <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> have included an If-Range header field (<a href="#header.if-range" id="rfc.xref.header.if-range.1" title="If-Range">Section 5.3</a>) to make the request conditional. |
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641 | </p> |
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642 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.2">The response <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include the following header fields: |
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643 | </p> |
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644 | <ul> |
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645 | <li>Either a Content-Range header field (<a href="#header.content-range" id="rfc.xref.header.content-range.2" title="Content-Range">Section 5.2</a>) indicating the range included with this response, or a multipart/byteranges Content-Type including Content-Range fields |
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646 | for each part. If a Content-Length header field is present in the response, its value <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> match the actual number of OCTETs transmitted in the message-body. |
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647 | </li> |
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648 | <li>Date</li> |
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649 | <li>ETag and/or Content-Location, if the header would have been sent in a 200 response to the same request</li> |
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650 | <li>Expires, Cache-Control, and/or Vary, if the field-value might differ from that sent in any previous response for the same |
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651 | variant |
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652 | </li> |
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653 | </ul> |
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654 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.3">If the 206 response is the result of an If-Range request, the response <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> include other entity-headers. Otherwise, the response <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include all of the entity-headers that would have been returned with a 200 (OK) response to the same request. |
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655 | </p> |
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656 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.4">A cache <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> combine a 206 response with other previously cached content if the ETag or Last-Modified headers do not match exactly, see <a href="#combining.byte.ranges" title="Combining Ranges">Section 4</a>. |
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657 | </p> |
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658 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.5">A cache that does not support the Range and Content-Range headers <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> cache 206 (Partial Content) responses. Furthermore, if a response uses a range unit that is not understood by the cache, then |
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659 | it <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> be cached either. |
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660 | </p> |
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661 | <div id="rfc.iref.4"></div> |
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662 | <div id="rfc.iref.s.2"></div> |
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663 | <h2 id="rfc.section.3.2"><a href="#rfc.section.3.2">3.2</a> <a id="status.416" href="#status.416">416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable</a></h2> |
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664 | <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.1">A server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return a response with this status code if a request included a Range request-header field (<a href="#header.range" id="rfc.xref.header.range.4" title="Range">Section 5.4</a>), and none of the ranges-specifier values in this field overlap the current extent of the selected resource, and the request |
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665 | did not include an If-Range request-header field. (For byte-ranges, this means that the first-byte-pos of all of the byte-range-spec |
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666 | values were greater than the current length of the selected resource.) |
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667 | </p> |
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668 | <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.2">When this status code is returned for a byte-range request, the response <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> include a Content-Range entity-header field specifying the current length of the selected resource (see <a href="#header.content-range" id="rfc.xref.header.content-range.3" title="Content-Range">Section 5.2</a>). This response <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> use the multipart/byteranges content-type. |
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669 | </p> |
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670 | <h1 id="rfc.section.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4">4.</a> <a id="combining.byte.ranges" href="#combining.byte.ranges">Combining Ranges</a></h1> |
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671 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.1">A response might transfer only a subrange of an entity-body, either the request included one or more Range specifications, |
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672 | or because a connection was broken prematurely. After several such transfers, a cache might have received several ranges of |
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673 | the same entity-body. |
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674 | </p> |
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675 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.2">If a cache has a stored non-empty set of subranges for an entity, and an incoming response transfers another subrange, the |
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676 | cache <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> combine the new subrange with the existing set if both the following conditions are met: |
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677 | </p> |
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678 | <ul> |
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679 | <li>Both the incoming response and the cache entry have a cache validator.</li> |
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680 | <li>The two cache validators match using the strong comparison function (see <a href="p4-conditional.html#weak.and.strong.validators" title="Weak and Strong Validators">Section 4</a> of <a href="#Part4" id="rfc.xref.Part4.2"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests">[Part4]</cite></a>). |
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681 | </li> |
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682 | </ul> |
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683 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.3">If either requirement is not met, the cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> use only the most recent partial response (based on the Date values transmitted with every response, and using the incoming |
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684 | response if these values are equal or missing), and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> discard the other partial information. |
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685 | </p> |
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686 | <h1 id="rfc.section.5"><a href="#rfc.section.5">5.</a> <a id="header.fields" href="#header.fields">Header Field Definitions</a></h1> |
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687 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.1">This section defines the syntax and semantics of HTTP/1.1 header fields related to range requests and partial responses.</p> |
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688 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.2">For entity-header fields, both sender and recipient refer to either the client or the server, depending on who sends and who |
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689 | receives the entity. |
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690 | </p> |
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691 | <div id="rfc.iref.a.1"></div> |
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692 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.1"></div> |
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693 | <h2 id="rfc.section.5.1"><a href="#rfc.section.5.1">5.1</a> <a id="header.accept-ranges" href="#header.accept-ranges">Accept-Ranges</a></h2> |
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694 | <p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.1">The response-header "Accept-Ranges" field allows the server to indicate its acceptance of range requests for a resource:</p> |
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695 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.5"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.4"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.5"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.6"></span> <a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">Accept-Ranges</a> = "Accept-Ranges" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> <a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">Accept-Ranges-v</a> |
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696 | <a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">Accept-Ranges-v</a> = <a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">acceptable-ranges</a> |
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697 | <a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">acceptable-ranges</a> = 1#<a href="#range.units" class="smpl">range-unit</a> / "none" |
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698 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.3">Origin servers that accept byte-range requests <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> send |
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699 | </p> |
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700 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.6"></div><pre class="text"> Accept-Ranges: bytes |
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701 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.5">but are not required to do so. Clients <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> generate range requests without having received this header for the resource involved. Range units are defined in <a href="#range.units" title="Range Units">Section 2</a>. |
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702 | </p> |
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703 | <p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.6">Servers that do not accept any kind of range request for a resource <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> send |
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704 | </p> |
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705 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.7"></div><pre class="text"> Accept-Ranges: none |
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706 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.1.p.8">to advise the client not to attempt a range request.</p> |
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707 | <div id="rfc.iref.c.1"></div> |
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708 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.2"></div> |
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709 | <h2 id="rfc.section.5.2"><a href="#rfc.section.5.2">5.2</a> <a id="header.content-range" href="#header.content-range">Content-Range</a></h2> |
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710 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.1">The entity-header "Content-Range" is sent with a partial entity-body to specify where in the full entity-body the partial |
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711 | body should be applied. Range units are defined in <a href="#range.units" title="Range Units">Section 2</a>. |
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712 | </p> |
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713 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.8"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.7"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.8"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.9"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.10"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.11"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.12"></span> <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">Content-Range</a> = "Content-Range" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">Content-Range-v</a> |
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714 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">Content-Range-v</a> = <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">content-range-spec</a> |
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715 | |
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716 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">content-range-spec</a> = <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">byte-content-range-spec</a> |
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717 | / <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">other-content-range-spec</a> |
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718 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">byte-content-range-spec</a> = <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">bytes-unit</a> <a href="#notation" class="smpl">SP</a> |
---|
719 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">byte-range-resp-spec</a> "/" |
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720 | ( <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">instance-length</a> / "*" ) |
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721 | |
---|
722 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">byte-range-resp-spec</a> = (<a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">first-byte-pos</a> "-" <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">last-byte-pos</a>) |
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723 | / "*" |
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724 | |
---|
725 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">instance-length</a> = 1*<a href="#notation" class="smpl">DIGIT</a> |
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726 | |
---|
727 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">other-content-range-spec</a> = <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">other-range-unit</a> <a href="#notation" class="smpl">SP</a> |
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728 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">other-range-resp-spec</a> |
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729 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">other-range-resp-spec</a> = *<a href="#notation" class="smpl">CHAR</a> |
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730 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.3">The header <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> indicate the total length of the full entity-body, unless this length is unknown or difficult to determine. The asterisk "*" |
---|
731 | character means that the instance-length is unknown at the time when the response was generated. |
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732 | </p> |
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733 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.4">Unlike byte-ranges-specifier values (see <a href="#byte.ranges" title="Byte Ranges">Section 5.4.1</a>), a byte-range-resp-spec <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> only specify one range, and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> contain absolute byte positions for both the first and last byte of the range. |
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734 | </p> |
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735 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.5">A byte-content-range-spec with a byte-range-resp-spec whose last-byte-pos value is less than its first-byte-pos value, or |
---|
736 | whose instance-length value is less than or equal to its last-byte-pos value, is invalid. The recipient of an invalid byte-content-range-spec <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> ignore it and any content transferred along with it. |
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737 | </p> |
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738 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.6">In the case of a byte range request: A server sending a response with status code 416 (Requested range not satisfiable) <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> include a Content-Range field with a byte-range-resp-spec of "*". The instance-length specifies the current length of the |
---|
739 | selected resource as a decimal number. A response with status code 206 (Partial Content) <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> include a Content-Range field with a byte-range-resp-spec of "*". |
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740 | </p> |
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741 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.7">Examples of byte-content-range-spec values, assuming that the entity contains a total of 1234 bytes: </p> |
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742 | <ul> |
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743 | <li>The first 500 bytes: |
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744 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.9"></div><pre class="text"> bytes 0-499/1234 |
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745 | </pre> </li> |
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746 | <li>The second 500 bytes: |
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747 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.10"></div><pre class="text"> bytes 500-999/1234 |
---|
748 | </pre> </li> |
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749 | <li>All except for the first 500 bytes: |
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750 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.11"></div><pre class="text"> bytes 500-1233/1234 |
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751 | </pre> </li> |
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752 | <li>The last 500 bytes: |
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753 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.12"></div><pre class="text"> bytes 734-1233/1234 |
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754 | </pre> </li> |
---|
755 | </ul> |
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756 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.8">When an HTTP message includes the content of a single range (for example, a response to a request for a single range, or to |
---|
757 | a request for a set of ranges that overlap without any holes), this content is transmitted with a Content-Range header, and |
---|
758 | a Content-Length header showing the number of bytes actually transferred. For example, |
---|
759 | </p> |
---|
760 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.13"></div><pre class="text"> HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content |
---|
761 | Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 06:25:24 GMT |
---|
762 | Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 04:58:08 GMT |
---|
763 | Content-Range: bytes 21010-47021/47022 |
---|
764 | Content-Length: 26012 |
---|
765 | Content-Type: image/gif |
---|
766 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.10">When an HTTP message includes the content of multiple ranges (for example, a response to a request for multiple non-overlapping |
---|
767 | ranges), these are transmitted as a multipart message. The multipart media type used for this purpose is "multipart/byteranges" |
---|
768 | as defined in <a href="#internet.media.type.multipart.byteranges" title="Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges">Appendix A</a>. See <a href="#changes.from.rfc.2068" title="Changes from RFC 2068">Appendix B.1</a> for a compatibility issue. |
---|
769 | </p> |
---|
770 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.11">A response to a request for a single range <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> be sent using the multipart/byteranges media type. A response to a request for multiple ranges, whose result is a single range, <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be sent as a multipart/byteranges media type with one part. A client that cannot decode a multipart/byteranges message <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> ask for multiple ranges in a single request. |
---|
771 | </p> |
---|
772 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.12">When a client requests multiple byte-ranges in one request, the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return them in the order that they appeared in the request. |
---|
773 | </p> |
---|
774 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.13">If the server ignores a byte-range-spec because it is syntactically invalid, the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> treat the request as if the invalid Range header field did not exist. (Normally, this means return a 200 response containing |
---|
775 | the full entity). |
---|
776 | </p> |
---|
777 | <p id="rfc.section.5.2.p.14">If the server receives a request (other than one including an If-Range request-header field) with an unsatisfiable Range request-header |
---|
778 | field (that is, all of whose byte-range-spec values have a first-byte-pos value greater than the current length of the selected |
---|
779 | resource), it <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return a response code of 416 (Requested range not satisfiable) (<a href="#status.416" id="rfc.xref.status.416.1" title="416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable">Section 3.2</a>). |
---|
780 | </p> |
---|
781 | <ul class="empty"> |
---|
782 | <li> <b>Note:</b> clients cannot depend on servers to send a 416 (Requested range not satisfiable) response instead of a 200 (OK) response for |
---|
783 | an unsatisfiable Range request-header, since not all servers implement this request-header. |
---|
784 | </li> |
---|
785 | </ul> |
---|
786 | <div id="rfc.iref.i.1"></div> |
---|
787 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.3"></div> |
---|
788 | <h2 id="rfc.section.5.3"><a href="#rfc.section.5.3">5.3</a> <a id="header.if-range" href="#header.if-range">If-Range</a></h2> |
---|
789 | <p id="rfc.section.5.3.p.1">If a client has a partial copy of an entity in its cache, and wishes to have an up-to-date copy of the entire entity in its |
---|
790 | cache, it could use the Range request-header with a conditional GET (using either or both of If-Unmodified-Since and If-Match.) |
---|
791 | However, if the condition fails because the entity has been modified, the client would then have to make a second request |
---|
792 | to obtain the entire current entity-body. |
---|
793 | </p> |
---|
794 | <p id="rfc.section.5.3.p.2">The request header "If-Range" allows a client to "short-circuit" the second request. Informally, its meaning is `if the entity |
---|
795 | is unchanged, send me the part(s) that I am missing; otherwise, send me the entire new entity'. |
---|
796 | </p> |
---|
797 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.14"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.13"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.14"></span> <a href="#header.if-range" class="smpl">If-Range</a> = "If-Range" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> <a href="#header.if-range" class="smpl">If-Range-v</a> |
---|
798 | <a href="#header.if-range" class="smpl">If-Range-v</a> = <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> / <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> |
---|
799 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.3.p.4">If the client has no entity tag for an entity, but does have a Last-Modified date, it <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> use that date in an If-Range header. (The server can distinguish between a valid HTTP-date and any form of entity-tag by examining |
---|
800 | no more than two characters.) The If-Range header <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> only be used together with a Range header, and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be ignored if the request does not include a Range header, or if the server does not support the sub-range operation. |
---|
801 | </p> |
---|
802 | <p id="rfc.section.5.3.p.5">If the entity tag given in the If-Range header matches the current entity tag for the entity, then the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> provide the specified sub-range of the entity using a 206 (Partial Content) response. If the entity tag does not match, then |
---|
803 | the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return the entire entity using a 200 (OK) response. |
---|
804 | </p> |
---|
805 | <div id="rfc.iref.r.1"></div> |
---|
806 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.4"></div> |
---|
807 | <h2 id="rfc.section.5.4"><a href="#rfc.section.5.4">5.4</a> <a id="header.range" href="#header.range">Range</a></h2> |
---|
808 | <h3 id="rfc.section.5.4.1"><a href="#rfc.section.5.4.1">5.4.1</a> <a id="byte.ranges" href="#byte.ranges">Byte Ranges</a></h3> |
---|
809 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.1">Since all HTTP entities are represented in HTTP messages as sequences of bytes, the concept of a byte range is meaningful |
---|
810 | for any HTTP entity. (However, not all clients and servers need to support byte-range operations.) |
---|
811 | </p> |
---|
812 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.2">Byte range specifications in HTTP apply to the sequence of bytes in the entity-body (not necessarily the same as the message-body).</p> |
---|
813 | <div id="rule.ranges-specifier"> |
---|
814 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.3"> A byte range operation <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> specify a single range of bytes, or a set of ranges within a single entity. |
---|
815 | </p> |
---|
816 | </div> |
---|
817 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.15"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.15"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.16"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.17"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.18"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.19"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.20"></span> <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-ranges-specifier</a> = <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">bytes-unit</a> "=" <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-range-set</a> |
---|
818 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-range-set</a> = 1#( <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-range-spec</a> / <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">suffix-byte-range-spec</a> ) |
---|
819 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-range-spec</a> = <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">first-byte-pos</a> "-" [ <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">last-byte-pos</a> ] |
---|
820 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">first-byte-pos</a> = 1*<a href="#notation" class="smpl">DIGIT</a> |
---|
821 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">last-byte-pos</a> = 1*<a href="#notation" class="smpl">DIGIT</a> |
---|
822 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.5">The first-byte-pos value in a byte-range-spec gives the byte-offset of the first byte in a range. The last-byte-pos value |
---|
823 | gives the byte-offset of the last byte in the range; that is, the byte positions specified are inclusive. Byte offsets are |
---|
824 | decimal and start at zero. |
---|
825 | </p> |
---|
826 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.6">If the last-byte-pos value is present, it <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be greater than or equal to the first-byte-pos in that byte-range-spec, or the byte-range-spec is syntactically invalid. The |
---|
827 | recipient of a byte-range-set that includes one or more syntactically invalid byte-range-spec values <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> ignore the header field that includes that byte-range-set. |
---|
828 | </p> |
---|
829 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.7">If the last-byte-pos value is absent, or if the value is greater than or equal to the current length of the entity-body, last-byte-pos |
---|
830 | is taken to be equal to one less than the current length of the entity-body in bytes. |
---|
831 | </p> |
---|
832 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.8">By its choice of last-byte-pos, a client can limit the number of bytes retrieved without knowing the size of the entity.</p> |
---|
833 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.16"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.21"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.22"></span> <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">suffix-byte-range-spec</a> = "-" <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">suffix-length</a> |
---|
834 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">suffix-length</a> = 1*<a href="#notation" class="smpl">DIGIT</a> |
---|
835 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.10">A suffix-byte-range-spec is used to specify the suffix of the entity-body, of a length given by the decimal suffix-length |
---|
836 | value. (That is, this form specifies the last N bytes of an entity-body.) If the entity is shorter than the specified suffix-length, |
---|
837 | the entire entity-body is used. |
---|
838 | </p> |
---|
839 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.11">If a syntactically valid byte-range-set includes at least one byte-range-spec whose first-byte-pos is less than the current |
---|
840 | length of the entity-body, or at least one suffix-byte-range-spec with a non-zero suffix-length, then the byte-range-set is |
---|
841 | satisfiable. Otherwise, the byte-range-set is unsatisfiable. If the byte-range-set is unsatisfiable, the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return a response with a status of 416 (Requested range not satisfiable). Otherwise, the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return a response with a status of 206 (Partial Content) containing the satisfiable ranges of the entity-body. |
---|
842 | </p> |
---|
843 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.1.p.12">Examples of byte-ranges-specifier values (assuming an entity-body of length 10000): </p> |
---|
844 | <ul> |
---|
845 | <li>The first 500 bytes (byte offsets 0-499, inclusive): bytes=0-499</li> |
---|
846 | <li>The second 500 bytes (byte offsets 500-999, inclusive): bytes=500-999</li> |
---|
847 | <li>The final 500 bytes (byte offsets 9500-9999, inclusive): bytes=-500</li> |
---|
848 | <li>Or bytes=9500-</li> |
---|
849 | <li>The first and last bytes only (bytes 0 and 9999): bytes=0-0,-1</li> |
---|
850 | <li>Several legal but not canonical specifications of the second 500 bytes (byte offsets 500-999, inclusive): <br> bytes=500-600,601-999<br> bytes=500-700,601-999 |
---|
851 | </li> |
---|
852 | </ul> |
---|
853 | <h3 id="rfc.section.5.4.2"><a href="#rfc.section.5.4.2">5.4.2</a> <a id="range.retrieval.requests" href="#range.retrieval.requests">Range Retrieval Requests</a></h3> |
---|
854 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.2.p.1">HTTP retrieval requests using conditional or unconditional GET methods <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> request one or more sub-ranges of the entity, instead of the entire entity, using the Range request header, which applies |
---|
855 | to the entity returned as the result of the request: |
---|
856 | </p> |
---|
857 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.17"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.23"></span> <a href="#range.retrieval.requests" class="smpl">Range</a> = "Range" ":" <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> <a href="#range.retrieval.requests" class="smpl">Range-v</a> |
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858 | <a href="#range.retrieval.requests" class="smpl">Range-v</a> = <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-ranges-specifier</a> |
---|
859 | / <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">other-ranges-specifier</a> |
---|
860 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">other-ranges-specifier</a> = 1*<a href="#notation" class="smpl">CHAR</a> |
---|
861 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.4.2.p.3">A server <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> ignore the Range header. However, HTTP/1.1 origin servers and intermediate caches ought to support byte ranges when possible, |
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862 | since Range supports efficient recovery from partially failed transfers, and supports efficient partial retrieval of large |
---|
863 | entities. |
---|
864 | </p> |
---|
865 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.2.p.4">If the server supports the Range header and the specified range or ranges are appropriate for the entity: </p> |
---|
866 | <ul> |
---|
867 | <li>The presence of a Range header in an unconditional GET modifies what is returned if the GET is otherwise successful. In other |
---|
868 | words, the response carries a status code of 206 (Partial Content) instead of 200 (OK). |
---|
869 | </li> |
---|
870 | <li>The presence of a Range header in a conditional GET (a request using one or both of If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match, or |
---|
871 | one or both of If-Unmodified-Since and If-Match) modifies what is returned if the GET is otherwise successful and the condition |
---|
872 | is true. It does not affect the 304 (Not Modified) response returned if the conditional is false. |
---|
873 | </li> |
---|
874 | </ul> |
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875 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.2.p.5">In some cases, it might be more appropriate to use the If-Range header (see <a href="#header.if-range" id="rfc.xref.header.if-range.2" title="If-Range">Section 5.3</a>) in addition to the Range header. |
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876 | </p> |
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877 | <p id="rfc.section.5.4.2.p.6">If a proxy that supports ranges receives a Range request, forwards the request to an inbound server, and receives an entire |
---|
878 | entity in reply, it <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> only return the requested range to its client. It <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> store the entire received response in its cache if that is consistent with its cache allocation policies. |
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879 | </p> |
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880 | <h1 id="rfc.section.6"><a href="#rfc.section.6">6.</a> <a id="IANA.considerations" href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a></h1> |
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881 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.1"><a href="#rfc.section.6.1">6.1</a> <a id="message.header.registration" href="#message.header.registration">Message Header Registration</a></h2> |
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882 | <p id="rfc.section.6.1.p.1">The Message Header Registry located at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-header-index.html">http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-header-index.html</a>> should be updated with the permanent registrations below (see <a href="#RFC3864" id="rfc.xref.RFC3864.1"><cite title="Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields">[RFC3864]</cite></a>): |
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883 | </p> |
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884 | <div id="rfc.table.1"> |
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885 | <div id="iana.header.registration.table"></div> |
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886 | <table class="tt full left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> |
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887 | <thead> |
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888 | <tr> |
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889 | <th>Header Field Name</th> |
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890 | <th>Protocol</th> |
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891 | <th>Status</th> |
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892 | <th>Reference</th> |
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893 | </tr> |
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894 | </thead> |
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895 | <tbody> |
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896 | <tr> |
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897 | <td class="left">Accept-Ranges</td> |
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898 | <td class="left">http</td> |
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899 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
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900 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.accept-ranges" id="rfc.xref.header.accept-ranges.1" title="Accept-Ranges">Section 5.1</a> |
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901 | </td> |
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902 | </tr> |
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903 | <tr> |
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904 | <td class="left">Content-Range</td> |
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905 | <td class="left">http</td> |
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906 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
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907 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.content-range" id="rfc.xref.header.content-range.4" title="Content-Range">Section 5.2</a> |
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908 | </td> |
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909 | </tr> |
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910 | <tr> |
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911 | <td class="left">If-Range</td> |
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912 | <td class="left">http</td> |
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913 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
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914 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.if-range" id="rfc.xref.header.if-range.3" title="If-Range">Section 5.3</a> |
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915 | </td> |
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916 | </tr> |
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917 | <tr> |
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918 | <td class="left">Range</td> |
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919 | <td class="left">http</td> |
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920 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
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921 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.range" id="rfc.xref.header.range.5" title="Range">Section 5.4</a> |
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922 | </td> |
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923 | </tr> |
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924 | </tbody> |
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925 | </table> |
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926 | </div> |
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927 | <p id="rfc.section.6.1.p.2">The change controller is: "IETF (iesg@ietf.org) - Internet Engineering Task Force".</p> |
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928 | <h1 id="rfc.section.7"><a href="#rfc.section.7">7.</a> <a id="security.considerations" href="#security.considerations">Security Considerations</a></h1> |
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929 | <p id="rfc.section.7.p.1">No additional security considerations have been identified beyond those applicable to HTTP in general <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.6"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>. |
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930 | </p> |
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931 | <h1 id="rfc.section.8"><a href="#rfc.section.8">8.</a> <a id="ack" href="#ack">Acknowledgments</a></h1> |
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932 | <p id="rfc.section.8.p.1">Most of the specification of ranges is based on work originally done by Ari Luotonen and John Franks, with additional input |
---|
933 | from Steve Zilles, Daniel W. Connolly, Roy T. Fielding, Jim Gettys, Martin Hamilton, Koen Holtman, Shel Kaplan, Paul Leach, |
---|
934 | Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Larry Masinter, Jeff Mogul, Lou Montulli, David W. Morris, Luigi Rizzo, and Bill Weihl. |
---|
935 | </p> |
---|
936 | <h1 id="rfc.references"><a id="rfc.section.9" href="#rfc.section.9">9.</a> References |
---|
937 | </h1> |
---|
938 | <h2 id="rfc.references.1"><a href="#rfc.section.9.1" id="rfc.section.9.1">9.1</a> Normative References |
---|
939 | </h2> |
---|
940 | <table> |
---|
941 | <tr> |
---|
942 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part1">[Part1]</b></td> |
---|
943 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Day Software">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org" title="One Laptop per Child">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems, Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-06">HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-06 (work in progress), March 2009. |
---|
944 | </td> |
---|
945 | </tr> |
---|
946 | <tr> |
---|
947 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part3">[Part3]</b></td> |
---|
948 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Day Software">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org" title="One Laptop per Child">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems, Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-06">HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-06 (work in progress), March 2009. |
---|
949 | </td> |
---|
950 | </tr> |
---|
951 | <tr> |
---|
952 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part4">[Part4]</b></td> |
---|
953 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Day Software">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org" title="One Laptop per Child">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems, Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-06">HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-06 (work in progress), March 2009. |
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954 | </td> |
---|
955 | </tr> |
---|
956 | <tr> |
---|
957 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part6">[Part6]</b></td> |
---|
958 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Day Software">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org" title="One Laptop per Child">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems, Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-06">HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-06 (work in progress), March 2009. |
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959 | </td> |
---|
960 | </tr> |
---|
961 | <tr> |
---|
962 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2046">[RFC2046]</b></td> |
---|
963 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:ned@innosoft.com" title="Innosoft International, Inc.">Freed, N.</a> and <a href="mailto:nsb@nsb.fv.com" title="First Virtual Holdings">N. Borenstein</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046">Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types</a>”, RFC 2046, November 1996. |
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964 | </td> |
---|
965 | </tr> |
---|
966 | <tr> |
---|
967 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2119">[RFC2119]</b></td> |
---|
968 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:sob@harvard.edu" title="Harvard University">Bradner, S.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119">Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels</a>”, BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. |
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969 | </td> |
---|
970 | </tr> |
---|
971 | <tr> |
---|
972 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC5234">[RFC5234]</b></td> |
---|
973 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:dcrocker@bbiw.net" title="Brandenburg InternetWorking">Crocker, D., Ed.</a> and <a href="mailto:paul.overell@thus.net" title="THUS plc.">P. Overell</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234">Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF</a>”, STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008. |
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974 | </td> |
---|
975 | </tr> |
---|
976 | </table> |
---|
977 | <h2 id="rfc.references.2"><a href="#rfc.section.9.2" id="rfc.section.9.2">9.2</a> Informative References |
---|
978 | </h2> |
---|
979 | <table> |
---|
980 | <tr> |
---|
981 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2616">[RFC2616]</b></td> |
---|
982 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@ics.uci.edu" title="University of California, Irvine">Fielding, R.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@w3.org" title="W3C">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:mogul@wrl.dec.com" title="Compaq Computer Corporation">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:frystyk@w3.org" title="MIT Laboratory for Computer Science">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:masinter@parc.xerox.com" title="Xerox Corporation">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, and <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="W3C">T. Berners-Lee</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616">Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</a>”, RFC 2616, June 1999. |
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983 | </td> |
---|
984 | </tr> |
---|
985 | <tr> |
---|
986 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC3864">[RFC3864]</b></td> |
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987 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:GK-IETF@ninebynine.org" title="Nine by Nine">Klyne, G.</a>, <a href="mailto:mnot@pobox.com" title="BEA Systems">Nottingham, M.</a>, and <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="HP Labs">J. Mogul</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3864">Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields</a>”, BCP 90, RFC 3864, September 2004. |
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988 | </td> |
---|
989 | </tr> |
---|
990 | <tr> |
---|
991 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC4288">[RFC4288]</b></td> |
---|
992 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:ned.freed@mrochek.com" title="Sun Microsystems">Freed, N.</a> and <a href="mailto:klensin+ietf@jck.com">J. Klensin</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288">Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures</a>”, BCP 13, RFC 4288, December 2005. |
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993 | </td> |
---|
994 | </tr> |
---|
995 | </table> |
---|
996 | <div class="avoidbreak"> |
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997 | <h1 id="rfc.authors"><a href="#rfc.authors">Authors' Addresses</a></h1> |
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998 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Roy T. Fielding</span> |
---|
999 | (editor) |
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1000 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Fielding</span><span class="given-name">Roy T.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Day Software</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">23 Corporate Plaza DR, Suite 280</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Newport Beach</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">92660</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline tel">Phone: <a href="tel:+1-949-706-5300"><span class="value">+1-949-706-5300</span></a></span><span class="vcardline tel"><span class="type">Fax</span>: <a href="fax:+1-949-706-5305"><span class="value">+1-949-706-5305</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com"><span class="email">fielding@gbiv.com</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://roy.gbiv.com/" class="url">http://roy.gbiv.com/</a></span></address> |
---|
1001 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Jim Gettys</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Gettys</span><span class="given-name">Jim</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">One Laptop per Child</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">21 Oak Knoll Road</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Carlisle</span>, <span class="region">MA</span> <span class="postal-code">01741</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:jg@laptop.org"><span class="email">jg@laptop.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://www.laptop.org/" class="url">http://www.laptop.org/</a></span></address> |
---|
1002 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Jeffrey C. Mogul</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Mogul</span><span class="given-name">Jeffrey C.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Hewlett-Packard Company</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">HP Labs, Large Scale Systems Group</span><span class="street-address vcardline">1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1177</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Palo Alto</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">94304</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org"><span class="email">JeffMogul@acm.org</span></a></span></address> |
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1003 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Henrik Frystyk Nielsen</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Frystyk</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Microsoft Corporation</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">1 Microsoft Way</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Redmond</span>, <span class="region">WA</span> <span class="postal-code">98052</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com"><span class="email">henrikn@microsoft.com</span></a></span></address> |
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1004 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Larry Masinter</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Masinter</span><span class="given-name">Larry</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Adobe Systems, Incorporated</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">345 Park Ave</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">San Jose</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">95110</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org"><span class="email">LMM@acm.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://larry.masinter.net/" class="url">http://larry.masinter.net/</a></span></address> |
---|
1005 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Paul J. Leach</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Leach</span><span class="given-name">Paul J.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Microsoft Corporation</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">1 Microsoft Way</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Redmond</span>, <span class="region">WA</span> <span class="postal-code">98052</span></span></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com"><span class="email">paulle@microsoft.com</span></a></span></address> |
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1006 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Tim Berners-Lee</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Berners-Lee</span><span class="given-name">Tim</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">World Wide Web Consortium</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</span><span class="street-address vcardline">The Stata Center, Building 32</span><span class="street-address vcardline">32 Vassar Street</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Cambridge</span>, <span class="region">MA</span> <span class="postal-code">02139</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org"><span class="email">timbl@w3.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" class="url">http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/</a></span></address> |
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1007 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Yves Lafon</span> |
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1008 | (editor) |
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1009 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Lafon</span><span class="given-name">Yves</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">World Wide Web Consortium</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">W3C / ERCIM</span><span class="street-address vcardline">2004, rte des Lucioles</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Sophia-Antipolis</span>, <span class="region">AM</span> <span class="postal-code">06902</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">France</span></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org"><span class="email">ylafon@w3.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/" class="url">http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/</a></span></address> |
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1010 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Julian F. Reschke</span> |
---|
1011 | (editor) |
---|
1012 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Reschke</span><span class="given-name">Julian F.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">greenbytes GmbH</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">Hafenweg 16</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Muenster</span>, <span class="region">NW</span> <span class="postal-code">48155</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">Germany</span></span><span class="vcardline tel">Phone: <a href="tel:+492512807760"><span class="value">+49 251 2807760</span></a></span><span class="vcardline tel"><span class="type">Fax</span>: <a href="fax:+492512807761"><span class="value">+49 251 2807761</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">EMail: <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de"><span class="email">julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/" class="url">http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</a></span></address> |
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1013 | </div> |
---|
1014 | <div id="rfc.iref.m.1"></div> |
---|
1015 | <div id="rfc.iref.m.2"></div> |
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1016 | <h1 id="rfc.section.A" class="np"><a href="#rfc.section.A">A.</a> <a id="internet.media.type.multipart.byteranges" href="#internet.media.type.multipart.byteranges">Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges</a></h1> |
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1017 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.1">When an HTTP 206 (Partial Content) response message includes the content of multiple ranges (a response to a request for multiple |
---|
1018 | non-overlapping ranges), these are transmitted as a multipart message-body (<a href="#RFC2046" id="rfc.xref.RFC2046.1"><cite title="Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types">[RFC2046]</cite></a>, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046#section-5.1">Section 5.1</a>). The media type for this purpose is called "multipart/byteranges". The following is to be registered with IANA <a href="#RFC4288" id="rfc.xref.RFC4288.1"><cite title="Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures">[RFC4288]</cite></a>. |
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1019 | </p> |
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1020 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.2">The multipart/byteranges media type includes one or more parts, each with its own Content-Type and Content-Range fields. The |
---|
1021 | required boundary parameter specifies the boundary string used to separate each body-part. |
---|
1022 | </p> |
---|
1023 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.3"> </p> |
---|
1024 | <dl> |
---|
1025 | <dt>Type name:</dt> |
---|
1026 | <dd>multipart</dd> |
---|
1027 | <dt>Subtype name:</dt> |
---|
1028 | <dd>byteranges</dd> |
---|
1029 | <dt>Required parameters:</dt> |
---|
1030 | <dd>boundary</dd> |
---|
1031 | <dt>Optional parameters:</dt> |
---|
1032 | <dd>none</dd> |
---|
1033 | <dt>Encoding considerations:</dt> |
---|
1034 | <dd>only "7bit", "8bit", or "binary" are permitted</dd> |
---|
1035 | <dt>Security considerations:</dt> |
---|
1036 | <dd>none</dd> |
---|
1037 | <dt>Interoperability considerations:</dt> |
---|
1038 | <dd>none</dd> |
---|
1039 | <dt>Published specification:</dt> |
---|
1040 | <dd>This specification (see <a href="#internet.media.type.multipart.byteranges" title="Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges">Appendix A</a>). |
---|
1041 | </dd> |
---|
1042 | <dt>Applications that use this media type:</dt> |
---|
1043 | <dt>Additional information:</dt> |
---|
1044 | <dd> |
---|
1045 | <dl> |
---|
1046 | <dt>Magic number(s):</dt> |
---|
1047 | <dd>none</dd> |
---|
1048 | <dt>File extension(s):</dt> |
---|
1049 | <dd>none</dd> |
---|
1050 | <dt>Macintosh file type code(s):</dt> |
---|
1051 | <dd>none</dd> |
---|
1052 | </dl> |
---|
1053 | </dd> |
---|
1054 | <dt>Person and email address to contact for further information:</dt> |
---|
1055 | <dd>See Authors Section.</dd> |
---|
1056 | <dt>Intended usage:</dt> |
---|
1057 | <dd>COMMON</dd> |
---|
1058 | <dt>Restrictions on usage:</dt> |
---|
1059 | <dd>none</dd> |
---|
1060 | <dt>Author/Change controller:</dt> |
---|
1061 | <dd>IESG</dd> |
---|
1062 | </dl> |
---|
1063 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.18"></div> |
---|
1064 | <p>For example:</p><pre class="text"> HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content |
---|
1065 | Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 06:25:24 GMT |
---|
1066 | Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 04:58:08 GMT |
---|
1067 | Content-type: multipart/byteranges; boundary=THIS_STRING_SEPARATES |
---|
1068 | |
---|
1069 | --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES |
---|
1070 | Content-type: application/pdf |
---|
1071 | Content-range: bytes 500-999/8000 |
---|
1072 | |
---|
1073 | ...the first range... |
---|
1074 | --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES |
---|
1075 | Content-type: application/pdf |
---|
1076 | Content-range: bytes 7000-7999/8000 |
---|
1077 | |
---|
1078 | ...the second range |
---|
1079 | --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES-- |
---|
1080 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.A.p.5">Notes: </p> |
---|
1081 | <ol> |
---|
1082 | <li>Additional CRLFs may precede the first boundary string in the entity.</li> |
---|
1083 | <li>Although <a href="#RFC2046" id="rfc.xref.RFC2046.2"><cite title="Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types">[RFC2046]</cite></a> permits the boundary string to be quoted, some existing implementations handle a quoted boundary string incorrectly. |
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1084 | </li> |
---|
1085 | <li>A number of browsers and servers were coded to an early draft of the byteranges specification to use a media type of multipart/x-byteranges<span id="rfc.iref.m.3"></span><span id="rfc.iref.m.4"></span>, which is almost, but not quite compatible with the version documented in HTTP/1.1. |
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1086 | </li> |
---|
1087 | </ol> |
---|
1088 | <h1 id="rfc.section.B"><a href="#rfc.section.B">B.</a> <a id="compatibility" href="#compatibility">Compatibility with Previous Versions</a></h1> |
---|
1089 | <h2 id="rfc.section.B.1"><a href="#rfc.section.B.1">B.1</a> <a id="changes.from.rfc.2068" href="#changes.from.rfc.2068">Changes from RFC 2068</a></h2> |
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1090 | <p id="rfc.section.B.1.p.1">Transfer-coding and message lengths all interact in ways that required fixing exactly when chunked encoding is used (to allow |
---|
1091 | for transfer encoding that may not be self delimiting); it was important to straighten out exactly how message lengths are |
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1092 | computed. (<a href="#header.content-range" id="rfc.xref.header.content-range.5" title="Content-Range">Section 5.2</a>, see also <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.7"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="#Part3" id="rfc.xref.Part3.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation">[Part3]</cite></a> and <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching">[Part6]</cite></a>) |
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1093 | </p> |
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1094 | <p id="rfc.section.B.1.p.2">There are situations where a server (especially a proxy) does not know the full length of a response but is capable of serving |
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1095 | a byterange request. We therefore need a mechanism to allow byteranges with a content-range not indicating the full length |
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1096 | of the message. (<a href="#header.content-range" id="rfc.xref.header.content-range.6" title="Content-Range">Section 5.2</a>) |
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1097 | </p> |
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1098 | <p id="rfc.section.B.1.p.3">Range request responses would become very verbose if all meta-data were always returned; by allowing the server to only send |
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1099 | needed headers in a 206 response, this problem can be avoided. (Section <a href="#status.206" id="rfc.xref.status.206.1" title="206 Partial Content">3.1</a> and <a href="#header.if-range" id="rfc.xref.header.if-range.4" title="If-Range">5.3</a>) |
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1100 | </p> |
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1101 | <p id="rfc.section.B.1.p.4">Fix problem with unsatisfiable range requests; there are two cases: syntactic problems, and range doesn't exist in the document. |
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1102 | The 416 status code was needed to resolve this ambiguity needed to indicate an error for a byte range request that falls outside |
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1103 | of the actual contents of a document. (Section <a href="#status.416" id="rfc.xref.status.416.2" title="416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable">3.2</a>, <a href="#header.content-range" id="rfc.xref.header.content-range.7" title="Content-Range">5.2</a>) |
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1104 | </p> |
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1105 | <h2 id="rfc.section.B.2"><a href="#rfc.section.B.2">B.2</a> <a id="changes.from.rfc.2616" href="#changes.from.rfc.2616">Changes from RFC 2616</a></h2> |
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1106 | <p id="rfc.section.B.2.p.1">Clarify that it is not ok to use a weak cache validator in a 206 response. (<a href="#status.206" id="rfc.xref.status.206.2" title="206 Partial Content">Section 3.1</a>) |
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1107 | </p> |
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1108 | <p id="rfc.section.B.2.p.2">Clarify that multipart/byteranges can consist of a single part. (<a href="#internet.media.type.multipart.byteranges" title="Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges">Appendix A</a>) |
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1109 | </p> |
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1110 | <h1 id="rfc.section.C"><a href="#rfc.section.C">C.</a> <a id="collected.abnf" href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></h1> |
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1111 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.19"></div> <pre class="inline"><a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">Accept-Ranges</a> = "Accept-Ranges:" OWS Accept-Ranges-v |
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1112 | <a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">Accept-Ranges-v</a> = acceptable-ranges |
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1113 | |
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1114 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">Content-Range</a> = "Content-Range:" OWS Content-Range-v |
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1115 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">Content-Range-v</a> = content-range-spec |
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1116 | |
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1117 | <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> = <HTTP-date, defined in [Part1], Section 3.2.1> |
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1118 | |
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1119 | <a href="#header.if-range" class="smpl">If-Range</a> = "If-Range:" OWS If-Range-v |
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1120 | <a href="#header.if-range" class="smpl">If-Range-v</a> = entity-tag / HTTP-date |
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1121 | |
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1122 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> = <OWS, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2> |
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1123 | |
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1124 | <a href="#range.retrieval.requests" class="smpl">Range</a> = "Range:" OWS Range-v |
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1125 | <a href="#range.retrieval.requests" class="smpl">Range-v</a> = byte-ranges-specifier / other-ranges-specifier |
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1126 | |
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1127 | <a href="#header.accept-ranges" class="smpl">acceptable-ranges</a> = ( *( "," OWS ) range-unit *( OWS "," [ OWS |
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1128 | range-unit ] ) ) / "none" |
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1129 | |
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1130 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">byte-content-range-spec</a> = bytes-unit SP byte-range-resp-spec "/" ( |
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1131 | instance-length / "*" ) |
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1132 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">byte-range-resp-spec</a> = ( first-byte-pos "-" last-byte-pos ) / "*" |
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1133 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-range-set</a> = ( *( "," OWS ) byte-range-spec ) / ( |
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1134 | suffix-byte-range-spec *( OWS "," [ ( OWS byte-range-spec ) / |
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1135 | suffix-byte-range-spec ] ) ) |
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1136 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-range-spec</a> = first-byte-pos "-" [ last-byte-pos ] |
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1137 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">byte-ranges-specifier</a> = bytes-unit "=" byte-range-set |
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1138 | <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">bytes-unit</a> = "bytes" |
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1139 | |
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1140 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">content-range-spec</a> = byte-content-range-spec / |
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1141 | other-content-range-spec |
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1142 | |
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1143 | <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> = <entity-tag, defined in [Part4], Section 2> |
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1144 | |
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1145 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">first-byte-pos</a> = 1*DIGIT |
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1146 | |
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1147 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">instance-length</a> = 1*DIGIT |
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1148 | |
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1149 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">last-byte-pos</a> = 1*DIGIT |
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1150 | |
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1151 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">other-content-range-spec</a> = other-range-unit SP other-range-resp-spec |
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1152 | <a href="#header.content-range" class="smpl">other-range-resp-spec</a> = *CHAR |
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1153 | <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">other-range-unit</a> = token |
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1154 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">other-ranges-specifier</a> = 1*CHAR |
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1155 | |
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1156 | <a href="#range.units" class="smpl">range-unit</a> = bytes-unit / other-range-unit |
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1157 | |
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1158 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">suffix-byte-range-spec</a> = "-" suffix-length |
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1159 | <a href="#rule.ranges-specifier" class="smpl">suffix-length</a> = 1*DIGIT |
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1160 | |
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1161 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">token</a> = <token, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2> |
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1162 | |
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1163 | |
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1164 | </pre> <div id="rfc.figure.u.20"></div> |
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1165 | <p>ABNF diagnostics:</p><pre class="inline">; Accept-Ranges defined but not used |
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1166 | ; Content-Range defined but not used |
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1167 | ; If-Range defined but not used |
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1168 | ; Range defined but not used |
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1169 | </pre><h1 id="rfc.section.D"><a href="#rfc.section.D">D.</a> <a id="change.log" href="#change.log">Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)</a></h1> |
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1170 | <h2 id="rfc.section.D.1"><a href="#rfc.section.D.1">D.1</a> Since RFC2616 |
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1171 | </h2> |
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1172 | <p id="rfc.section.D.1.p.1">Extracted relevant partitions from <a href="#RFC2616" id="rfc.xref.RFC2616.1"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1">[RFC2616]</cite></a>. |
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1173 | </p> |
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1174 | <h2 id="rfc.section.D.2"><a href="#rfc.section.D.2">D.2</a> Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-00 |
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1175 | </h2> |
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1176 | <p id="rfc.section.D.2.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1177 | <ul> |
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1178 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/18">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/18</a>>: "Cache validators in 206 responses" (<<a href="http://purl.org/NET/http-errata#ifrange206">http://purl.org/NET/http-errata#ifrange206</a>>) |
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1179 | </li> |
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1180 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/35">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/35</a>>: "Normative and Informative references" |
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1181 | </li> |
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1182 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/86">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/86</a>>: "Normative up-to-date references" |
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1183 | </li> |
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1184 | </ul> |
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1185 | <h2 id="rfc.section.D.3"><a href="#rfc.section.D.3">D.3</a> Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-01 |
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1186 | </h2> |
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1187 | <p id="rfc.section.D.3.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1188 | <ul> |
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1189 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/55">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/55</a>>: "Updating to RFC4288" |
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1190 | </li> |
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1191 | </ul> |
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1192 | <p id="rfc.section.D.3.p.2">Ongoing work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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1193 | </p> |
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1194 | <ul> |
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1195 | <li>Add explicit references to BNF syntax and rules imported from other parts of the specification.</li> |
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1196 | </ul> |
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1197 | <h2 id="rfc.section.D.4"><a href="#rfc.section.D.4">D.4</a> <a id="changes.since.02" href="#changes.since.02">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-02</a></h2> |
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1198 | <p id="rfc.section.D.4.p.1">Ongoing work on IANA Message Header Registration (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/40">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/40</a>>): |
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1199 | </p> |
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1200 | <ul> |
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1201 | <li>Reference RFC 3984, and update header registrations for headers defined in this document.</li> |
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1202 | </ul> |
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1203 | <h2 id="rfc.section.D.5"><a href="#rfc.section.D.5">D.5</a> <a id="changes.since.03" href="#changes.since.03">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-03</a></h2> |
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1204 | <h2 id="rfc.section.D.6"><a href="#rfc.section.D.6">D.6</a> <a id="changes.since.04" href="#changes.since.04">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-04</a></h2> |
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1205 | <p id="rfc.section.D.6.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1206 | <ul> |
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1207 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/133">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/133</a>>: "multipart/byteranges minimum number of parts" |
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1208 | </li> |
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1209 | </ul> |
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1210 | <p id="rfc.section.D.6.p.2">Ongoing work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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1211 | </p> |
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1212 | <ul> |
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1213 | <li>Use "/" instead of "|" for alternatives.</li> |
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1214 | <li>Introduce new ABNF rules for "bad" whitespace ("BWS"), optional whitespace ("OWS") and required whitespace ("RWS").</li> |
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1215 | <li>Rewrite ABNFs to spell out whitespace rules, factor out header value format definitions.</li> |
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1216 | </ul> |
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1217 | <h2 id="rfc.section.D.7"><a href="#rfc.section.D.7">D.7</a> <a id="changes.since.05" href="#changes.since.05">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-05</a></h2> |
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1218 | <p id="rfc.section.D.7.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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1219 | <ul> |
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1220 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/142">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/142</a>>: "State base for *-byte-pos and suffix-length" |
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1221 | </li> |
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1222 | </ul> |
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1223 | <p id="rfc.section.D.7.p.2">Ongoing work on Custom Ranges (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/85">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/85</a>>): |
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1224 | </p> |
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1225 | <ul> |
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1226 | <li>Remove bias in favor of byte ranges; allow custom ranges in ABNF.</li> |
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1227 | </ul> |
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1228 | <p id="rfc.section.D.7.p.3">Final work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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1229 | </p> |
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1230 | <ul> |
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1231 | <li>Add appendix containing collected and expanded ABNF, reorganize ABNF introduction.</li> |
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1232 | </ul> |
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1233 | <h1 id="rfc.index"><a href="#rfc.index">Index</a></h1> |
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1234 | <p class="noprint"><a href="#rfc.index.2">2</a> <a href="#rfc.index.4">4</a> <a href="#rfc.index.A">A</a> <a href="#rfc.index.C">C</a> <a href="#rfc.index.G">G</a> <a href="#rfc.index.H">H</a> <a href="#rfc.index.I">I</a> <a href="#rfc.index.M">M</a> <a href="#rfc.index.P">P</a> <a href="#rfc.index.R">R</a> <a href="#rfc.index.S">S</a> |
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1235 | </p> |
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1236 | <div class="print2col"> |
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1237 | <ul class="ind"> |
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1238 | <li><a id="rfc.index.2" href="#rfc.index.2"><b>2</b></a><ul> |
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1239 | <li>206 Partial Content (status code) <a href="#rfc.iref.3"><b>3.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.206.1">B.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.206.2">B.2</a></li> |
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1240 | </ul> |
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1241 | </li> |
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1242 | <li><a id="rfc.index.4" href="#rfc.index.4"><b>4</b></a><ul> |
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1243 | <li>416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable (status code) <a href="#rfc.iref.4"><b>3.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.416.1">5.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.416.2">B.1</a></li> |
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1244 | </ul> |
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1245 | </li> |
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1246 | <li><a id="rfc.index.A" href="#rfc.index.A"><b>A</b></a><ul> |
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1247 | <li>Accept-Ranges header <a href="#rfc.iref.a.1"><b>5.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.accept-ranges.1">6.1</a></li> |
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1248 | </ul> |
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1249 | </li> |
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1250 | <li><a id="rfc.index.C" href="#rfc.index.C"><b>C</b></a><ul> |
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1251 | <li>Content-Range header <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.2">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.3">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.c.1"><b>5.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.4">6.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.5">B.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.6">B.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.7">B.1</a></li> |
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1252 | </ul> |
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1253 | </li> |
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1254 | <li><a id="rfc.index.G" href="#rfc.index.G"><b>G</b></a><ul> |
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1255 | <li><tt>Grammar</tt> |
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1256 | <ul> |
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1257 | <li><tt>Accept-Ranges</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.4"><b>5.1</b></a></li> |
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1258 | <li><tt>Accept-Ranges-v</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.5"><b>5.1</b></a></li> |
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1259 | <li><tt>acceptable-ranges</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.6"><b>5.1</b></a></li> |
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1260 | <li><tt>byte-content-range-spec</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.10"><b>5.2</b></a></li> |
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1261 | <li><tt>byte-range-resp-spec</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.11"><b>5.2</b></a></li> |
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1262 | <li><tt>byte-range-set</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.17"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1263 | <li><tt>byte-range-spec</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.18"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1264 | <li><tt>byte-ranges-specifier</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.16"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1265 | <li><tt>bytes-unit</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.2"><b>2</b></a></li> |
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1266 | <li><tt>Content-Range</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.7"><b>5.2</b></a></li> |
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1267 | <li><tt>content-range-spec</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.9"><b>5.2</b></a></li> |
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1268 | <li><tt>Content-Range-v</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.8"><b>5.2</b></a></li> |
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1269 | <li><tt>first-byte-pos</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.19"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1270 | <li><tt>If-Range</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.13"><b>5.3</b></a></li> |
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1271 | <li><tt>If-Range-v</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.14"><b>5.3</b></a></li> |
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1272 | <li><tt>instance-length</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.12"><b>5.2</b></a></li> |
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1273 | <li><tt>last-byte-pos</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.20"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1274 | <li><tt>other-range-unit</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.3"><b>2</b></a></li> |
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1275 | <li><tt>Range</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.23"><b>5.4.2</b></a></li> |
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1276 | <li><tt>range-unit</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.1"><b>2</b></a></li> |
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1277 | <li><tt>ranges-specifier</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.15"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1278 | <li><tt>suffix-byte-range-spec</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.21"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1279 | <li><tt>suffix-length</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.22"><b>5.4.1</b></a></li> |
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1280 | </ul> |
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1281 | </li> |
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1282 | </ul> |
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1283 | </li> |
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1284 | <li><a id="rfc.index.H" href="#rfc.index.H"><b>H</b></a><ul> |
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1285 | <li>Headers |
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1286 | <ul> |
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1287 | <li>Accept-Ranges <a href="#rfc.iref.h.1"><b>5.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.accept-ranges.1">6.1</a></li> |
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1288 | <li>Content-Range <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.2">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.3">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.2"><b>5.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.4">6.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.5">B.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.6">B.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.content-range.7">B.1</a></li> |
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1289 | <li>If-Range <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.1">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.3"><b>5.3</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.2">5.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.3">6.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.4">B.1</a></li> |
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1290 | <li>Range <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.2">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.3">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.4">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.4"><b>5.4</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.5">6.1</a></li> |
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1291 | </ul> |
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1292 | </li> |
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1293 | </ul> |
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1294 | </li> |
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1295 | <li><a id="rfc.index.I" href="#rfc.index.I"><b>I</b></a><ul> |
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1296 | <li>If-Range header <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.1">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.i.1"><b>5.3</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.2">5.4.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.3">6.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-range.4">B.1</a></li> |
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1297 | </ul> |
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1298 | </li> |
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1299 | <li><a id="rfc.index.M" href="#rfc.index.M"><b>M</b></a><ul> |
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1300 | <li>Media Type |
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1301 | <ul> |
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1302 | <li>multipart/byteranges <a href="#rfc.iref.m.1"><b>A</b></a></li> |
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1303 | <li>multipart/x-byteranges <a href="#rfc.iref.m.4">A</a></li> |
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1304 | </ul> |
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1305 | </li> |
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1306 | <li>multipart/byteranges Media Type <a href="#rfc.iref.m.2"><b>A</b></a></li> |
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1307 | <li>multipart/x-byteranges Media Type <a href="#rfc.iref.m.3">A</a></li> |
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1308 | </ul> |
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1309 | </li> |
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1310 | <li><a id="rfc.index.P" href="#rfc.index.P"><b>P</b></a><ul> |
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1311 | <li><em>Part1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">1.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">7</a>, <a href="#Part1"><b>9.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">B.1</a><ul> |
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1312 | <li><em>Section 1.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.2</a></li> |
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1313 | <li><em>Section 1.2.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">1.2.1</a></li> |
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1314 | <li><em>Section 3.2.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">1.2.2</a></li> |
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1315 | </ul> |
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1316 | </li> |
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1317 | <li><em>Part3</em> <a href="#Part3"><b>9.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part3.1">B.1</a></li> |
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1318 | <li><em>Part4</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part4.1">1.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part4.2">4</a>, <a href="#Part4"><b>9.1</b></a><ul> |
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1319 | <li><em>Section 2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part4.1">1.2.2</a></li> |
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1320 | <li><em>Section 4</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part4.2">4</a></li> |
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1321 | </ul> |
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1322 | </li> |
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1323 | <li><em>Part6</em> <a href="#Part6"><b>9.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">B.1</a></li> |
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1324 | </ul> |
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1325 | </li> |
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1326 | <li><a id="rfc.index.R" href="#rfc.index.R"><b>R</b></a><ul> |
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1327 | <li>Range header <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.2">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.3">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.4">3.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.r.1"><b>5.4</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.range.5">6.1</a></li> |
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1328 | <li><em>RFC2046</em> <a href="#RFC2046"><b>9.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2046.1">A</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2046.2">A</a><ul> |
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1329 | <li><em>Section 5.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2046.1">A</a></li> |
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1330 | </ul> |
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1331 | </li> |
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1332 | <li><em>RFC2119</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2119.1">1.1</a>, <a href="#RFC2119"><b>9.1</b></a></li> |
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1333 | <li><em>RFC2616</em> <a href="#RFC2616"><b>9.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2616.1">D.1</a></li> |
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1334 | <li><em>RFC3864</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC3864.1">6.1</a>, <a href="#RFC3864"><b>9.2</b></a></li> |
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1335 | <li><em>RFC4288</em> <a href="#RFC4288"><b>9.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC4288.1">A</a></li> |
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1336 | <li><em>RFC5234</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.1">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.2">1.2</a>, <a href="#RFC5234"><b>9.1</b></a><ul> |
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1337 | <li><em>Appendix B.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.2">1.2</a></li> |
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1338 | </ul> |
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1339 | </li> |
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1340 | </ul> |
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1341 | </li> |
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1342 | <li><a id="rfc.index.S" href="#rfc.index.S"><b>S</b></a><ul> |
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1343 | <li>Status Codes |
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1344 | <ul> |
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1345 | <li>206 Partial Content <a href="#rfc.iref.s.1"><b>3.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.206.1">B.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.206.2">B.2</a></li> |
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1346 | <li>416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable <a href="#rfc.iref.s.2"><b>3.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.416.1">5.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.416.2">B.1</a></li> |
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1347 | </ul> |
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1348 | </li> |
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1349 | </ul> |
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1350 | </li> |
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1351 | </ul> |
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1352 | </div> |
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1353 | </body> |
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1354 | </html> |
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