206 Partial Content
The HTTP
206 Partial Content success status response code
indicates that the request has succeeded and has the body contains the requested ranges
of data, as described in the Range header of the request.If there is only one range, the
Content-Type of the whole response is
set to the type of the document, and a Content-Range is provided.If several ranges are sent back, the
Content-Type is set to
multipart/byteranges and each fragment covers one range, with
Content-Range and Content-Type describing it.Status
206 Partial ContentExamples
A response containing one single range:
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 ... 26012 bytes of partial image data ...
A response containing several ranges:
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 --String_separator Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Range: bytes 234-639/8000 ...the first range... --String_separator Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Range: bytes 4590-7999/8000 ...the second range --String_separator--
Specifications
| Specification | Title |
|---|---|
| RFC 7233, section 4.1: 206 Partial Content | Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests |
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