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error-by-one in partial HTTP/1.1 GET requests 

           Summary: error-by-one in partial HTTP/1.1 GET requests
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.0.1 Final
          Platform: PC
               URL: www.activesky.com
        OS/Version: Windows NT/2K
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Unknown
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: stephen.klump@activesky.com


Given nonnegative integers m, n where m < n

Given an HTTP/1.1 request like

GET http://<myhost>:<myport>/data.html HTTP/1.1
Range:bytes=<m>-<n>

(no angle brackets around m and n, of course), Tomcat responds with only bytes 
(m) through (n-1).

Given an HTTP/1.1 request like

GET http://myhost:<myport>/data.html HTTP/1.1
Range:bytes=-<n>

(no angle brackets around n, of course), Tomcat responds with only the last (n-
1) bytes of data.

Therefore, it appears impossible to get the last byte of a file using partial 
GETs under HTTP/1.1.

The way I read RFC2616, byte ranges are supposed to be inclusive, start at 0 
and end at one less than the file length (section 14.35.1).

Help please?  Any suggestions how I can work around this?
Stephen

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