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If-Range

Summary

Asks the server to apply the range request only if the provided ETag or Last-Modified date is current; otherwise send the entire resource.

Overview table

Direction
Request

Features
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Syntax

If-Range = entity-tag / HTTP-date

Usage

 A client MUST NOT generate an If-Range header field containing an entity-tag that is marked as weak.

A client MUST NOT generate an If-Range header field containing an HTTP-date unless the client has no entity-tag for the corresponding representation and the date is a strong validator in the sense defined by Section 2.2.2 of RFC7232.

Related specifications

RFC7233: HTTP/1.1 Range Requests
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