And digging around in the source tree, it seems that
Cherokee simply doesn't implement support for the If-Range
header! :) After looking through handler_file.c some, my head
started to ache and my vision became blurred. Needless to say,
I'm too stupid to add the support necessary for this header.
I thought one approach might be to always reply with a
200 and the full file if the If-Range header is detected along
with a Range header. But I cannot tell from the RFC if this is
acceptable behavior. Either way, the approach was considered as
a hack to get things working.
The second approach of course is to acknowledge the
presence of the If-Range header and then make the necessary check
of either the supplied etag or last-modified entity from the
client against the current etag or last-modified entity of the
requested file. Again, my head was swimming at the notion of
actually modifying anything enough to make this happen.
So, while I understand the problem (I think), I'm far too
limited in my coding knowledge to make it happen. Hopefully it
is trivial for someone else to address! :)
I'll stop having this conversation with myself now until
someone else competent replies with the trivial five line patch
that adds this functionality! At least, I hope that it is that
simple.
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