protocol/1464: Response for Byte-Range containing whole file "Range: bytes=0-"

[Michael Burford <mj...@headlightsw.com>]

>Number:         1464
>Category:       protocol
>Synopsis:       Response for Byte-Range containing whole file "Range: bytes=0-"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 23 13:30:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     mjb@headlightsw.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        Server: Apache/1.3b3
>Environment:
Not my server so I don't know.
>Description:
While I don't think it is a bug, some of my users have commented on this and
it could cause confusion.

When doing a byte-range request, GetRight (and probably other tools) will
do the first request from "Range: bytes=0-".  It uses the response (206 or 200) to
indicate if the server will allow it to resume later if this transfer 
is disconnected.
(GetRight may be downloaded from http://www.getright.com/ )

It appears that 1.3b3 returns a 200 response if the range is for the while file 
("0-"), but 206 otherwise.

While it doesn't really cause any problems, GetRight will interpret the 200 response
as meaning the server will not allow resuming.  Some users may try to find some
other server to download since it doesn't appear that this server will let
them resume later.

-------------Headers for byterange "0-"-------
----Header Sent----
GET /sounds/WAV/Rafiki.zip HTTP/1.1
Host: www.lionking.org
Range: bytes=0-
User-Agent: GetRight/3.02
Accept: *.*, */*
Range-If: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:28:04 GMT

----Header Recv----
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:09:27 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3b3 mod_perl/1.06
Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:28:04 GMT
ETag: "4b46f-1a80fb-336113d4"
Content-Length: 1736955
Content-Type: application/zip

-------------Headers for regular byterange-------
----Header Sent----
GET /sounds/WAV/Rafiki.zip HTTP/1.1
Host: www.lionking.org
Range: bytes=60527-
User-Agent: GetRight/3.02
Accept: *.*, */*
Range-If: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:28:04 GMT

----Header Recv----
HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 21:20:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3b3 mod_perl/1.06
Last-Modified: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:28:04 GMT
ETag: "4b46f-1a80fb-336113d4"
Content-Length: 1676428
Content-Range: bytes 60527-1736954/1736955
Content-Type: application/zip

>How-To-Repeat:
http://www.lionking.org/sounds/WAV/Rafiki.zip
>Fix:
Either Apache can always return a 206 for any byte-range request, or GetRight 
can parse the Server response & know that Apache/1.2 or higher really will
resume--but it may not actually be able to resume if there is some Proxy
server in the middle that doesn't know about HTTP 1.1
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