Range requests is the ability in HTTP to request a part of a document based on one or more ranges. This can be used in scenarios where the client wants to recover from interrupted data transfers as a result of canceled requests or dropped connections. It can also be used in scenarios where a client requests only a subset of a larger representation, such as a single segment of a very large document for special processing. Ranges specify a start and an end given a unit. The unit can be anything but by far the most common is "bytes". An example of a range request asking for the first 10 bytes is as follows: GET /api/range HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:50231 Range : bytes=0-9 An example asking for the first and last byte contains...(read more) ...
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