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HTTPbis Working Group                                   R. Fielding, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                              Day Software
Obsoletes: 2616 (if approved)                                  J. Gettys
Intended status: Standards Track                          Alcatel-Lucent
Expires: February 5, 2011                                       J. Mogul
                                                                      HP
                                                              H. Frystyk
                                                               Microsoft
                                                             L. Masinter
                                                           Adobe Systems
                                                                P. Leach
                                                               Microsoft
                                                          T. Berners-Lee
                                                                 W3C/MIT
                                                           Y. Lafon, Ed.
                                                                     W3C
                                                         J. Reschke, Ed.
                                                              greenbytes
                                                          August 4, 2010


         HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses
                     draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-11

Abstract

   The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
   protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information
   systems.  HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global
   information initiative since 1990.  This document is Part 5 of the
   seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as
   "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616.  Part 5 defines
   range-specific requests and the rules for constructing and combining
   responses to those requests.

Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)

   Discussion of this draft should take place on the HTTPBIS working
   group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org).  The current issues list is
   at <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/3> and related
   documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at
   <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/>.

   The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix D.12.

Status of This Memo

   This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the



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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     1.1.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     1.2.  Syntax Notation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
       1.2.1.  Core Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
       1.2.2.  ABNF Rules defined in other Parts of the
               Specification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   2.  Range Units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     2.1.  Range Specifier Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   3.  Status Code Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.1.  206 Partial Content  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.2.  416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable  . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   4.  Combining Ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   5.  Header Field Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     5.1.  Accept-Ranges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     5.2.  Content-Range  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     5.3.  If-Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     5.4.  Range  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       5.4.1.  Byte Ranges  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       5.4.2.  Range Retrieval Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   6.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     6.1.  Status Code Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     6.2.  Header Field Registration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     6.3.  Range Specifier Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   8.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   9.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     9.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     9.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   Appendix A.  Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges  . . . . . . 17
   Appendix B.  Compatibility with Previous Versions  . . . . . . . . 20
     B.1.  Changes from RFC 2616  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   Appendix C.  Collected ABNF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   Appendix D.  Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before
                publication)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     D.1.  Since RFC2616  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     D.2.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-00 . . . . . . . . . . . 21
     D.3.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-01 . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     D.4.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-02 . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     D.5.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-03 . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     D.6.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-04 . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     D.7.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-05 . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     D.8.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-06 . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     D.9.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-07 . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     D.10. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-08 . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     D.11. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-09 . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     D.12. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-10 . . . . . . . . . . . 23



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   Index  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24


















































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1.  Introduction

   HTTP clients often encounter interrupted data transfers as a result
   of cancelled requests or dropped connections.  When a cache has
   stored a partial representation, it is desirable to request the
   remainder of that representation in a subsequent request rather than
   transfer the entire representation.  There are also a number of Web
   applications that benefit from being able to request only a subset of
   a larger representation, such as a single page of a very large
   document or only part of an image to be rendered by a device with
   limited local storage.

   This document defines HTTP/1.1 range requests, partial responses, and
   the multipart/byteranges media type.  The protocol for range requests
   is an OPTIONAL feature of HTTP, designed so resources or recipients
   that do not implement this feature can respond as if it is a normal
   GET request without impacting interoperability.  Partial responses
   are indicated by a distinct status code to not be mistaken for full
   responses by intermediate caches that might not implement the
   feature.

   Although the HTTP range request mechanism is designed to allow for
   extensible range types, this specification only defines requests for
   byte ranges.

1.1.  Requirements

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

   An implementation is not compliant if it fails to satisfy one or more
   of the "MUST" or "REQUIRED" level requirements for the protocols it
   implements.  An implementation that satisfies all the "MUST" or
   "REQUIRED" level and all the "SHOULD" level requirements for its
   protocols is said to be "unconditionally compliant"; one that
   satisfies all the "MUST" level requirements but not all the "SHOULD"
   level requirements for its protocols is said to be "conditionally
   compliant".

1.2.  Syntax Notation

   This specification uses the ABNF syntax defined in Section 1.2 of
   [Part1] (which extends the syntax defined in [RFC5234] with a list
   rule).  Appendix C shows the collected ABNF, with the list rule
   expanded.

   The following core rules are included by reference, as defined in



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   [RFC5234], Appendix B.1: ALPHA (letters), CR (carriage return), CRLF
   (CR LF), CTL (controls), DIGIT (decimal 0-9), DQUOTE (double quote),
   HEXDIG (hexadecimal 0-9/A-F/a-f), LF (line feed), OCTET (any 8-bit
   sequence of data), SP (space), VCHAR (any visible USASCII character),
   and WSP (whitespace).

1.2.1.  Core Rules

   The core rules below are defined in Section 1.2.2 of [Part1]:

     token      = <token, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2>
     OWS        = <OWS, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2>

1.2.2.  ABNF Rules defined in other Parts of the Specification

   The ABNF rules below are defined in other parts:

     HTTP-date  = <HTTP-date, defined in [Part1], Section 6.1>


     entity-tag = <entity-tag, defined in [Part4], Section 2>

2.  Range Units

   HTTP/1.1 allows a client to request that only part (a range of) the
   representation be included within the response.  HTTP/1.1 uses range
   units in the Range (Section 5.4) and Content-Range (Section 5.2)
   header fields.  A representation can be broken down into subranges
   according to various structural units.

     range-unit       = bytes-unit / other-range-unit
     bytes-unit       = "bytes"
     other-range-unit = token

   HTTP/1.1 has been designed to allow implementations of applications
   that do not depend on knowledge of ranges.  The only range unit
   defined by HTTP/1.1 is "bytes".  Additional specifiers can be defined
   as described in Section 2.1.

   If a range unit is not understood in a request, a server MUST ignore
   the whole Range header (Section 5.4).  If a range unit is not
   understood in a response, an intermediary SHOULD pass the response to
   the client; a client MUST fail.

2.1.  Range Specifier Registry

   The HTTP Ranger Specifier Registry defines the name space for the
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   Registrations MUST include the following fields:

   o  Name

   o  Description

   o  Pointer to specification text

   Values to be added to this name space are subject to IETF review
   ([RFC5226], Section 4.1).

   The registry itself is maintained at
   <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-range-specifiers>.

3.  Status Code Definitions

3.1.  206 Partial Content

   The server has fulfilled the partial GET request for the resource.
   The request MUST have included a Range header field (Section 5.4)
   indicating the desired range, and MAY have included an If-Range
   header field (Section 5.3) to make the request conditional.

   The response MUST include the following header fields:

   o  Either a Content-Range header field (Section 5.2) indicating the
      range included with this response, or a multipart/byteranges
      Content-Type including Content-Range fields for each part.  If a
      Content-Length header field is present in the response, its value
      MUST match the actual number of octets transmitted in the message-
      body.

   o  Date

   o  Cache-Control, ETag, Expires, Content-Location, Last-Modified,
      and/or Vary, if the header field would have been sent in a 200
      response to the same request

   If the 206 response is the result of an If-Range request, the
   response SHOULD NOT include other representation header fields.
   Otherwise, the response MUST include all of the representation header
   fields that would have been returned with a 200 (OK) response to the
   same request.

   A cache MUST NOT combine a 206 response with other previously cached
   content if the ETag or Last-Modified headers do not match exactly,
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   A cache that does not support the Range and Content-Range headers
   MUST NOT cache 206 (Partial Content) responses.  Furthermore, if a
   response uses a range unit that is not understood by the cache, then
   it MUST NOT be cached either.

3.2.  416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

   A server SHOULD return a response with this status code if a request
   included a Range request-header field (Section 5.4), and none of the
   ranges-specifier values in this field overlap the current extent of
   the selected resource, and the request did not include an If-Range
   request-header field (Section 5.3).  (For byte-ranges, this means
   that the first-byte-pos of all of the byte-range-spec values were
   greater than the current length of the selected resource.)

   When this status code is returned for a byte-range request, the
   response SHOULD include a Content-Range header field specifying the
   current length of the representation (see Section 5.2).  This
   response MUST NOT use the multipart/byteranges content-type.

4.  Combining Ranges

   A response might transfer only a subrange of a representation, either
   because the request included one or more Range specifications, or
   because a connection closed prematurely.  After several such
   transfers, a cache might have received several ranges of the same
   representation.

   If a cache has a stored non-empty set of subranges for a
   representation, and an incoming response transfers another subrange,
   the cache MAY combine the new subrange with the existing set if both
   the following conditions are met:

   o  Both the incoming response and the cache entry have a cache
      validator.

   o  The two cache validators match using the strong comparison
      function (see Section 4 of [Part4]).

   If either requirement is not met, the cache MUST use only the most
   recent partial response (based on the Date values transmitted with
   every response, and using the incoming response if these values are
   equal or missing), and MUST discard the other partial information.

5.  Header Field Definitions

   This section defines the syntax and semantics of HTTP/1.1 header
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5.1.  Accept-Ranges

   The "Accept-Ranges" response-header field allows a resource to
   indicate its acceptance of range requests.

     Accept-Ranges     = "Accept-Ranges" ":" OWS Accept-Ranges-v
     Accept-Ranges-v   = acceptable-ranges
     acceptable-ranges = 1#range-unit / "none"

   Origin servers that accept byte-range requests MAY send

     Accept-Ranges: bytes

   but are not required to do so.  Clients MAY generate range requests
   without having received this header for the resource involved.  Range
   units are defined in Section 2.

   Servers that do not accept any kind of range request for a resource
   MAY send

     Accept-Ranges: none

   to advise the client not to attempt a range request.

5.2.  Content-Range

   The "Content-Range" header field is sent with a partial
   representation to specify where in the full representation the
   payload body is intended to be applied.

   Range units are defined in Section 2.

     Content-Range = "Content-Range" ":" OWS Content-Range-v
     Content-Range-v = content-range-spec

     content-range-spec      = byte-content-range-spec
                             / other-content-range-spec
     byte-content-range-spec = bytes-unit SP
                               byte-range-resp-spec "/"
                               ( instance-length / "*" )

     byte-range-resp-spec    = (first-byte-pos "-" last-byte-pos)
                             / "*"

     instance-length         = 1*DIGIT

     other-content-range-spec = other-range-unit SP
                                other-range-resp-spec



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     other-range-resp-spec    = *CHAR

   The header SHOULD indicate the total length of the full
   representation, unless this length is unknown or difficult to
   determine.  The asterisk "*" character means that the instance-length
   is unknown at the time when the response was generated.

   Unlike byte-ranges-specifier values (see Section 5.4.1), a byte-
   range-resp-spec MUST only specify one range, and MUST contain
   absolute byte positions for both the first and last byte of the
   range.

   A byte-content-range-spec with a byte-range-resp-spec whose last-
   byte-pos value is less than its first-byte-pos value, or whose
   instance-length value is less than or equal to its last-byte-pos
   value, is invalid.  The recipient of an invalid byte-content-range-
   spec MUST ignore it and any content transferred along with it.

   In the case of a byte range request: A server sending a response with
   status code 416 (Requested range not satisfiable) SHOULD include a
   Content-Range field with a byte-range-resp-spec of "*".  The
   instance-length specifies the current length of the selected
   resource.  A response with status code 206 (Partial Content) MUST NOT
   include a Content-Range field with a byte-range-resp-spec of "*".

   Examples of byte-content-range-spec values, assuming that the
   representation contains a total of 1234 bytes:

   o  The first 500 bytes:

        bytes 0-499/1234

   o  The second 500 bytes:

        bytes 500-999/1234

   o  All except for the first 500 bytes:

        bytes 500-1233/1234

   o  The last 500 bytes:

        bytes 734-1233/1234

   When an HTTP message includes the content of a single range (for
   example, a response to a request for a single range, or to a request
   for a set of ranges that overlap without any holes), this content is
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   showing the number of bytes actually transferred.  For example,

     HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
     Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 06:25:24 GMT
     Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 04:58:08 GMT
     Content-Range: bytes 21010-47021/47022
     Content-Length: 26012
     Content-Type: image/gif

   When an HTTP message includes the content of multiple ranges (for
   example, a response to a request for multiple non-overlapping
   ranges), these are transmitted as a multipart message.  The multipart
   media type used for this purpose is "multipart/byteranges" as defined
   in Appendix A.

   A response to a request for a single range MUST NOT be sent using the
   multipart/byteranges media type.  A response to a request for
   multiple ranges, whose result is a single range, MAY be sent as a
   multipart/byteranges media type with one part.  A client that cannot
   decode a multipart/byteranges message MUST NOT ask for multiple
   ranges in a single request.

   When a client requests multiple ranges in one request, the server
   SHOULD return them in the order that they appeared in the request.

   If the server ignores a byte-range-spec because it is syntactically
   invalid, the server SHOULD treat the request as if the invalid Range
   header field did not exist.  (Normally, this means return a 200
   response containing the full representation).

   If the server receives a request (other than one including an If-
   Range request-header field) with an unsatisfiable Range request-
   header field (that is, all of whose byte-range-spec values have a
   first-byte-pos value greater than the current length of the selected
   resource), it SHOULD return a response code of 416 (Requested range
   not satisfiable) (Section 3.2).

      Note: Clients cannot depend on servers to send a 416 (Requested
      range not satisfiable) response instead of a 200 (OK) response for
      an unsatisfiable Range request-header, since not all servers
      implement this request-header.

5.3.  If-Range

   If a client has a partial copy of a representation in its cache, and
   wishes to have an up-to-date copy of the entire representation in its
   cache, it could use the Range request-header with a conditional GET
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   if the condition fails because the representation has been modified,
   the client would then have to make a second request to obtain the
   entire current representation.

   The "If-Range" request-header field allows a client to "short-
   circuit" the second request.  Informally, its meaning is "if the
   representation is unchanged, send me the part(s) that I am missing;
   otherwise, send me the entire new representation".

     If-Range   = "If-Range" ":" OWS If-Range-v
     If-Range-v = entity-tag / HTTP-date

   If the client has no entity-tag for a representation, but does have a
   Last-Modified date, it MAY use that date in an If-Range header.  (The
   server can distinguish between a valid HTTP-date and any form of
   entity-tag by examining no more than two characters.)  The If-Range
   header SHOULD only be used together with a Range header, and MUST be
   ignored if the request does not include a Range header, or if the
   server does not support the sub-range operation.

   If the entity-tag given in the If-Range header matches the current
   cache validator for the representation, then the server SHOULD
   provide the specified sub-range of the representation using a 206
   (Partial Content) response.  If the cache validator does not match,
   then the server SHOULD return the entire representation using a 200
   (OK) response.

5.4.  Range

5.4.1.  Byte Ranges

   Since all HTTP representations are transferred as sequences of bytes,
   the concept of a byte range is meaningful for any HTTP
   representation.  (However, not all clients and servers need to
   support byte-range operations.)

   Byte range specifications in HTTP apply to the sequence of bytes in
   the representation body (not necessarily the same as the message-
   body).

   A byte range operation MAY specify a single range of bytes, or a set
   of ranges within a single representation.

     byte-ranges-specifier = bytes-unit "=" byte-range-set
     byte-range-set  = 1#( byte-range-spec / suffix-byte-range-spec )
     byte-range-spec = first-byte-pos "-" [ last-byte-pos ]
     first-byte-pos  = 1*DIGIT
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   The first-byte-pos value in a byte-range-spec gives the byte-offset
   of the first byte in a range.  The last-byte-pos value gives the
   byte-offset of the last byte in the range; that is, the byte
   positions specified are inclusive.  Byte offsets start at zero.

   If the last-byte-pos value is present, it MUST be greater than or
   equal to the first-byte-pos in that byte-range-spec, or the byte-
   range-spec is syntactically invalid.  The recipient of a byte-range-
   set that includes one or more syntactically invalid byte-range-spec
   values MUST ignore the header field that includes that byte-range-
   set.

   If the last-byte-pos value is absent, or if the value is greater than
   or equal to the current length of the representation body, last-byte-
   pos is taken to be equal to one less than the current length of the
   representation in bytes.

   By its choice of last-byte-pos, a client can limit the number of
   bytes retrieved without knowing the size of the representation.

     suffix-byte-range-spec = "-" suffix-length
     suffix-length = 1*DIGIT

   A suffix-byte-range-spec is used to specify the suffix of the
   representation body, of a length given by the suffix-length value.
   (That is, this form specifies the last N bytes of a representation.)
   If the representation is shorter than the specified suffix-length,
   the entire representation is used.

   If a syntactically valid byte-range-set includes at least one byte-
   range-spec whose first-byte-pos is less than the current length of
   the representation, or at least one suffix-byte-range-spec with a
   non-zero suffix-length, then the byte-range-set is satisfiable.
   Otherwise, the byte-range-set is unsatisfiable.  If the byte-range-
   set is unsatisfiable, the server SHOULD return a response with a 416
   (Requested range not satisfiable) status code.  Otherwise, the server
   SHOULD return a response with a 206 (Partial Content) status code
   containing the satisfiable ranges of the representation.

   Examples of byte-ranges-specifier values (assuming a representation
   of length 10000):

   o  The first 500 bytes (byte offsets 0-499, inclusive):

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   o  The second 500 bytes (byte offsets 500-999, inclusive):

        bytes=500-999

   o  The final 500 bytes (byte offsets 9500-9999, inclusive):

        bytes=-500

      Or:

        bytes=9500-

   o  The first and last bytes only (bytes 0 and 9999):

        bytes=0-0,-1

   o  Several legal but not canonical specifications of the second 500
      bytes (byte offsets 500-999, inclusive):

        bytes=500-600,601-999
        bytes=500-700,601-999

5.4.2.  Range Retrieval Requests

   The "Range" request-header field defines the GET method (conditional
   or not) to request one or more sub-ranges of the response
   representation body, instead of the entire representation body.

     Range   = "Range" ":" OWS Range-v
     Range-v = byte-ranges-specifier
             / other-ranges-specifier
     other-ranges-specifier = other-range-unit "=" other-range-set
     other-range-set = 1*CHAR

   A server MAY ignore the Range header.  However, HTTP/1.1 origin
   servers and intermediate caches ought to support byte ranges when
   possible, since Range supports efficient recovery from partially
   failed transfers, and supports efficient partial retrieval of large
   representations.

   If the server supports the Range header and the specified range or
   ranges are appropriate for the representation:

   o  The presence of a Range header in an unconditional GET modifies
      what is returned if the GET is otherwise successful.  In other
      words, the response carries a status code of 206 (Partial Content)
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   o  The presence of a Range header in a conditional GET (a request
      using one or both of If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match, or one
      or both of If-Unmodified-Since and If-Match) modifies what is
      returned if the GET is otherwise successful and the condition is
      true.  It does not affect the 304 (Not Modified) response returned
      if the conditional is false.

   In some cases, it might be more appropriate to use the If-Range
   header (see Section 5.3) in addition to the Range header.

   If a proxy that supports ranges receives a Range request, forwards
   the request to an inbound server, and receives an entire
   representation in reply, it SHOULD only return the requested range to
   its client.  It SHOULD store the entire received response in its
   cache if that is consistent with its cache allocation policies.

6.  IANA Considerations

6.1.  Status Code Registration

   The HTTP Status Code Registry located at
   <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes> shall be updated
   with the registrations below:

   +-------+---------------------------------+-------------+
   | Value | Description                     | Reference   |
   +-------+---------------------------------+-------------+
   | 206   | Partial Content                 | Section 3.1 |
   | 416   | Requested Range Not Satisfiable | Section 3.2 |
   +-------+---------------------------------+-------------+

6.2.  Header Field Registration

   The Message Header Field Registry located at <http://www.iana.org/
   assignments/message-headers/message-header-index.html> shall be
   updated with the permanent registrations below (see [RFC3864]):

   +-------------------+----------+----------+-------------+
   | Header Field Name | Protocol | Status   | Reference   |
   +-------------------+----------+----------+-------------+
   | Accept-Ranges     | http     | standard | Section 5.1 |
   | Content-Range     | http     | standard | Section 5.2 |
   | If-Range          | http     | standard | Section 5.3 |
   | Range             | http     | standard | Section 5.4 |
   +-------------------+----------+----------+-------------+

   The change controller is: "IETF (iesg@ietf.org) - Internet
   Engineering Task Force".



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6.3.  Range Specifier Registration

   The registration procedure for HTTP Range Specifiers is defined by
   Section 2.1 of this document.

   The HTTP Range Specifier Registry shall be created at
   <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-range-specifiers> and be
   populated with the registrations below:

   +----------------------+-------------------+----------------------+
   | Range Specifier Name | Description       | Reference            |
   +----------------------+-------------------+----------------------+
   | bytes                | a range of octets | (this specification) |
   +----------------------+-------------------+----------------------+

   The change controller is: "IETF (iesg@ietf.org) - Internet
   Engineering Task Force".

7.  Security Considerations

   No additional security considerations have been identified beyond
   those applicable to HTTP in general [Part1].

8.  Acknowledgments

   Most of the specification of ranges is based on work originally done
   by Ari Luotonen and John Franks, with additional input from Steve
   Zilles, Daniel W. Connolly, Roy T. Fielding, Jim Gettys, Martin
   Hamilton, Koen Holtman, Shel Kaplan, Paul Leach, Alex Lopez-Ortiz,
   Larry Masinter, Jeff Mogul, Lou Montulli, David W. Morris, Luigi
   Rizzo, and Bill Weihl.

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [Part1]    Fielding, R., Ed., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
              Masinter, L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T., Lafon, Y., Ed.,
              and J. Reschke, Ed., "HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections,
              and Message Parsing", draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-11
              (work in progress), August 2010.

   [Part4]    Fielding, R., Ed., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
              Masinter, L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T., Lafon, Y., Ed.,
              and J. Reschke, Ed., "HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional
              Requests", draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-11 (work in
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   [RFC2046]  Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
              Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046,
              November 1996.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC5234]  Crocker, D., Ed. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
              Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008.

9.2.  Informative References

   [RFC2616]  Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
              Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.

   [RFC3864]  Klyne, G., Nottingham, M., and J. Mogul, "Registration
              Procedures for Message Header Fields", BCP 90, RFC 3864,
              September 2004.

   [RFC4288]  Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Media Type Specifications and
              Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 4288, December 2005.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
              May 2008.

Appendix A.  Internet Media Type multipart/byteranges

   When an HTTP 206 (Partial Content) response message includes the
   content of multiple ranges (a response to a request for multiple non-
   overlapping ranges), these are transmitted as a multipart message-
   body ([RFC2046], Section 5.1).  The media type for this purpose is
   called "multipart/byteranges".  The following is to be registered
   with IANA [RFC4288].

      Note: Despite the name "multipart/byteranges" is not limited to
      the byte ranges only.

   The multipart/byteranges media type includes one or more parts, each
   with its own Content-Type and Content-Range fields.  The required
   boundary parameter specifies the boundary string used to separate
   each body-part.








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   Type name:  multipart

   Subtype name:  byteranges

   Required parameters:  boundary

   Optional parameters:  none

   Encoding considerations:  only "7bit", "8bit", or "binary" are
      permitted

   Security considerations:  none

   Interoperability considerations:  none

   Published specification:  This specification (see Appendix A).

   Applications that use this media type:

   Additional information:

      Magic number(s):  none

      File extension(s):  none

      Macintosh file type code(s):  none

   Person and email address to contact for further information:  See
      Authors Section.

   Intended usage:  COMMON

   Restrictions on usage:  none

   Author/Change controller:  IESG
















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   For example:

     HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
     Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 06:25:24 GMT
     Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 04:58:08 GMT
     Content-type: multipart/byteranges; boundary=THIS_STRING_SEPARATES

     --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES
     Content-type: application/pdf
     Content-range: bytes 500-999/8000

     ...the first range...
     --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES
     Content-type: application/pdf
     Content-range: bytes 7000-7999/8000

     ...the second range
     --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES--

   Other example:

     HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
     Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 06:25:24 GMT
     Last-Modified: Tue, 14 July 04:58:08 GMT
     Content-type: multipart/byteranges; boundary=THIS_STRING_SEPARATES

     --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES
     Content-type: video/example
     Content-range: exampleunit 1.2-4.3/25

     ...the first range...
     --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES
     Content-type: video/example
     Content-range: exampleunit 11.2-14.3/25

     ...the second range
     --THIS_STRING_SEPARATES--

   Notes:

   1.  Additional CRLFs MAY precede the first boundary string in the
       body.

   2.  Although [RFC2046] permits the boundary string to be quoted, some
       existing implementations handle a quoted boundary string
       incorrectly.





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   3.  A number of browsers and servers were coded to an early draft of
       the byteranges specification to use a media type of multipart/
       x-byteranges, which is almost, but not quite compatible with the
       version documented in HTTP/1.1.

Appendix B.  Compatibility with Previous Versions

B.1.  Changes from RFC 2616

   Clarify that it is not ok to use a weak cache validator in a 206
   response.  (Section 3.1)

   Clarify that multipart/byteranges can consist of a single part.
   (Appendix A)

Appendix C.  Collected ABNF

   Accept-Ranges = "Accept-Ranges:" OWS Accept-Ranges-v
   Accept-Ranges-v = acceptable-ranges

   Content-Range = "Content-Range:" OWS Content-Range-v
   Content-Range-v = content-range-spec

   HTTP-date = <HTTP-date, defined in [Part1], Section 6.1>

   If-Range = "If-Range:" OWS If-Range-v
   If-Range-v = entity-tag / HTTP-date

   OWS = <OWS, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2>

   Range = "Range:" OWS Range-v
   Range-v = byte-ranges-specifier / other-ranges-specifier

   acceptable-ranges = ( *( "," OWS ) range-unit *( OWS "," [ OWS
    range-unit ] ) ) / "none"

   byte-content-range-spec = bytes-unit SP byte-range-resp-spec "/" (
    instance-length / "*" )
   byte-range-resp-spec = ( first-byte-pos "-" last-byte-pos ) / "*"
   byte-range-set = ( *( "," OWS ) byte-range-spec ) / (
    suffix-byte-range-spec *( OWS "," [ ( OWS byte-range-spec ) /
    suffix-byte-range-spec ] ) )
   byte-range-spec = first-byte-pos "-" [ last-byte-pos ]
   byte-ranges-specifier = bytes-unit "=" byte-range-set
   bytes-unit = "bytes"

   content-range-spec = byte-content-range-spec /
    other-content-range-spec



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   entity-tag = <entity-tag, defined in [Part4], Section 2>

   first-byte-pos = 1*DIGIT

   instance-length = 1*DIGIT

   last-byte-pos = 1*DIGIT

   other-content-range-spec = other-range-unit SP other-range-resp-spec
   other-range-resp-spec = *CHAR
   other-range-set = 1*CHAR
   other-range-unit = token
   other-ranges-specifier = other-range-unit "=" other-range-set

   range-unit = bytes-unit / other-range-unit

   suffix-byte-range-spec = "-" suffix-length
   suffix-length = 1*DIGIT

   token = <token, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2>

   ABNF diagnostics:

   ; Accept-Ranges defined but not used
   ; Content-Range defined but not used
   ; If-Range defined but not used
   ; Range defined but not used

Appendix D.  Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)

D.1.  Since RFC2616

   Extracted relevant partitions from [RFC2616].

D.2.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-00

   Closed issues:

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/18>: "Cache
      validators in 206 responses"
      (<http://purl.org/NET/http-errata#ifrange206>)

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/35>: "Normative and
      Informative references"

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/86>: "Normative up-
      to-date references"




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D.3.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-01

   Closed issues:

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/55>: "Updating to
      RFC4288"

   Ongoing work on ABNF conversion
   (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36>):

   o  Add explicit references to BNF syntax and rules imported from
      other parts of the specification.

D.4.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-02

   Ongoing work on IANA Message Header Registration
   (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/40>):

   o  Reference RFC 3984, and update header registrations for headers
      defined in this document.

D.5.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-03

D.6.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-04

   Closed issues:

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/133>: "multipart/
      byteranges minimum number of parts"

   Ongoing work on ABNF conversion
   (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36>):

   o  Use "/" instead of "|" for alternatives.

   o  Introduce new ABNF rules for "bad" whitespace ("BWS"), optional
      whitespace ("OWS") and required whitespace ("RWS").

   o  Rewrite ABNFs to spell out whitespace rules, factor out header
      value format definitions.

D.7.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-05

   Closed issues:

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/142>: "State base
      for *-byte-pos and suffix-length"




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   Ongoing work on Custom Ranges
   (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/85>):

   o  Remove bias in favor of byte ranges; allow custom ranges in ABNF.

   Final work on ABNF conversion
   (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36>):

   o  Add appendix containing collected and expanded ABNF, reorganize
      ABNF introduction.

D.8.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-06

   Closed issues:

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/161>: "base for
      numeric protocol elements"

D.9.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-07

   Closed issues:

   o  Fixed discrepancy in the If-Range definition about allowed
      validators.

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/150>: "multipart/
      byteranges for custom range units"

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/151>: "range unit
      missing from other-ranges-specifier in Range header"

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/198>: "move IANA
      registrations for optional status codes"

D.10.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-08

   No significant changes.

D.11.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-09

   No significant changes.

D.12.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-10

   Closed issues:

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/69>: "Clarify
      'Requested Variant'"



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   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/109>: "Clarify
      entity / representation / variant terminology"

   o  <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/220>: "consider
      removing the 'changes from 2068' sections"

   Ongoing work on Custom Ranges
   (<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/85>):

   o  Add IANA registry.

Index

   2
      206 Partial Content (status code)  7

   4
      416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable (status code)  8

   A
      Accept-Ranges header  9

   C
      Content-Range header  9

   G
      Grammar
         Accept-Ranges  9
         Accept-Ranges-v  9
         acceptable-ranges  9
         byte-content-range-spec  9
         byte-range-resp-spec  9
         byte-range-set  12
         byte-range-spec  12
         byte-ranges-specifier  12
         bytes-unit  6
         Content-Range  9
         content-range-spec  9
         Content-Range-v  9
         first-byte-pos  12
         If-Range  12
         If-Range-v  12
         instance-length  9
         last-byte-pos  12
         other-range-unit  6
         Range  14
         range-unit  6
         ranges-specifier  12



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         suffix-byte-range-spec  13
         suffix-length  13

   H
      Headers
         Accept-Ranges  9
         Content-Range  9
         If-Range  11
         Range  12

   I
      If-Range header  11

   M
      Media Type
         multipart/byteranges  17
         multipart/x-byteranges  20
      multipart/byteranges Media Type  17
      multipart/x-byteranges Media Type  20

   R
      Range header  12

   S
      Status Codes
         206 Partial Content  7
         416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable  8

Authors' Addresses

   Roy T. Fielding (editor)
   Day Software
   23 Corporate Plaza DR, Suite 280
   Newport Beach, CA  92660
   USA

   Phone: +1-949-706-5300
   Fax:   +1-949-706-5305
   EMail: fielding@gbiv.com
   URI:   http://roy.gbiv.com/











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   Jim Gettys
   Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
   21 Oak Knoll Road
   Carlisle, MA  01741
   USA

   EMail: jg@freedesktop.org
   URI:   http://gettys.wordpress.com/


   Jeffrey C. Mogul
   Hewlett-Packard Company
   HP Labs, Large Scale Systems Group
   1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1177
   Palo Alto, CA  94304
   USA

   EMail: JeffMogul@acm.org


   Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
   Microsoft Corporation
   1 Microsoft Way
   Redmond, WA  98052
   USA

   EMail: henrikn@microsoft.com


   Larry Masinter
   Adobe Systems, Incorporated
   345 Park Ave
   San Jose, CA  95110
   USA

   EMail: LMM@acm.org
   URI:   http://larry.masinter.net/


   Paul J. Leach
   Microsoft Corporation
   1 Microsoft Way
   Redmond, WA  98052

   EMail: paulle@microsoft.com






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   Tim Berners-Lee
   World Wide Web Consortium
   MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
   The Stata Center, Building 32
   32 Vassar Street
   Cambridge, MA  02139
   USA

   EMail: timbl@w3.org
   URI:   http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/


   Yves Lafon (editor)
   World Wide Web Consortium
   W3C / ERCIM
   2004, rte des Lucioles
   Sophia-Antipolis, AM  06902
   France

   EMail: ylafon@w3.org
   URI:   http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/


   Julian F. Reschke (editor)
   greenbytes GmbH
   Hafenweg 16
   Muenster, NW  48155
   Germany

   Phone: +49 251 2807760
   Fax:   +49 251 2807761
   EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
   URI:   http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/


















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