Status
http
206 Partial Content
Examples
Receiving a 206 response for a single requested range
The following is a sample 206 response when a single range of 21010- (bytes 21010 to the end of file) of an image file is requested.
The response contains Content-Type of image/gif and the Content-Range is provided:
http
GET /z4d4kWk.gif HTTP/1.1
Host: images.example.com
Range: bytes=21010-
http
HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 06:25:24 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 04:58:08 GMT
Content-Range: bytes 21010-47021/47022
Content-Length: 26012
Content-Type: image/gif
ETag: "abc123"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
# 26012 bytes of partial image data…
Receiving a 206 response for multiple requested ranges
Following is a sample 206 response when two ranges of a PDF file are requested.
The response contains the multipart/byteranges Content-Type with a separate Content-Type (application/pdf) and Content-Range for each range.
http
GET /price-list.pdf HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
Range: bytes=234-639,4590-7999
http
HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 06:25:24 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 04:58:08 GMT
Content-Length: 1741
Content-Type: multipart/byteranges; boundary=String_separator
ETag: "abc123"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
--String_separator
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Range: bytes 234-639/8000
# content of first range (406 bytes)
--String_separator
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Range: bytes 4590-7999/8000
# content of second range (3410 bytes)
--String_separator--
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTTP Semantics # status.206 |