Re: Content-Range on responses other than 206

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Fri, 15 July 2011 13:38 UTC

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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:19:21PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> 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

I agree that such issues could be avoided by a minor clarification.

Willy