curl-library
Re: Ranged PUTs, Content-Range, and Content-Length
From: m brandenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:23:16 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 09:23:16 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, Ray Satiro via curl-library wrote:
>
>> CURLOPT_RANGE specifically as far as I know is only supposed to be used
>> for download, not upload (can anyone confirm?),
>
> This is correct. There's actually no standard way to do ranged "uploads" for
> HTTP, just various more or less working hacks.
>
> PATCH (RFC 5789) was the fix for that.
Well, 2616 specifically defines some "MUST NOT" behavior
around this case (PUT + "Content-*" headers):
https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
So being able to send that combination correctly may be a reasonable
expectation.
m
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