The following reply was made to PR protocol/1464; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: protocol/1464: Response for Byte-Range containing whole file "Range: bytes=0-" Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:39:19 -0700 (MST) Also note that sending a Range: header for all requests will cause a lot of proxy servers to not cache the response, which is not really desirable. On 23 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Synopsis: Response for Byte-Range containing whole file "Range: bytes=0-" > > State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed > State-Changed-By: akosut > State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 23 14:36:49 PST 1997 > State-Changed-Why: > Although this is not technically a bug, we do agree that it is > an inconsistency in Apache's handling of byteranges. We are discussing > the matter, the behavior may change in the next release of Apache. > > However, it should be pointed out that the HTTP/1.1 spec does > provide a way to check to see if a given entity (for a non-ranges request) > supports byteranges: the presence of an "Accept-Ranges" header. Most > servers that I know of do send this. >
