On Tue, 30 Apr 2019, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> RFC 2616 is obsoleted by RFC 7231 and its section 4.3.4 which says:
>
> An origin server that allows PUT on a given target resource MUST send
> a 400 (Bad Request) response to a PUT request that contains a
> Content-Range header field (Section 4.2 of [RFC7233]), since the
> payload is likely to be partial content that has been mistakenly PUT
> as a full representation. Partial content updates are possible by
> targeting a separately identified resource with state that overlaps a
> portion of the larger resource, or by using a different method that
> has been specifically defined for partial updates (for example, the
> PATCH method defined in [RFC5789]).
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.4

True but organizations that publish stable, long-lived APIs don't
switch from 2616 to 7231 overnight.

m

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