On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, Hongyi Zhao wrote:

> As you can see, the end-range is out of the range of the file, but curl
> still treat is as the successfully execution.

It does the same for an HTTP range:

$ curl -r 5-202 localhost -v
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost
> Range: bytes=5-202
> User-Agent: curl/7.42.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
< Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:00:04 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian)
< Last-Modified: Sat, 31 May 2014 22:05:33 GMT
< ETag: "d-4fab95c704b1c"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 8
< Content-Range: bytes 5-12/13
< Content-Type: text/html
<
  tinken
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
$ echo $?
0

> Any hints?

You mean you'd like that to fail? Can you motivate that?

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