On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:34:32PM +0800, Hou-xiang ZHU wrote:
> As you can see, the server indicate it "Accept-Ranges:bytes" now, but in
> reality it doesn't, when
> clients send the following message, it will generate "404 not found " error,
> something like this.
> ---------------------
>
> Host: 60.217.245.14
> Accept: */*
> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)
> Pragma: no-cache
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Range: bytes=0-
> Connection: close
>
> --------------------
>
> Please advice how can we deal with this situation.

A simple workaround for the case you show above is to just not include a
Range: header when the range is the entire file. If your app later needs
a different range and the server returns an error code, then treat the
server from then on as one that doesn't support ranges.

>>> Dan
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