Name
Content-Range
Synopsis
The Content-Range header is sent as the result of a request that transmitted a range of a document. It provides the location (range) within the original entity that this entity represents. It also gives the length of the entire entity.
If an “*” is present in the value instead of the length of the entire entity, this means that the length was not known when the response was sent.
See Chapter 15 for more on the Content-Range header.
Type
Entity header
Notes
Servers responding with the 206 Partial Content response code must not include a Content-Range header with an “*” as the length.
Example
Content-Range: bytes 500-999 / 5400
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