Content-Range on responses other than 206

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Fri, 15 July 2011 13:20 UTC

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Anyone object to stating that Content-Range has no meaning on responses that aren't 206's? 

Right now we don't say that, and it causes problems; see
  http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=45116

Cheers,


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