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The ;bytes stuff is an extension that netscape added to HTTP I
beleive -- from reading their material they claimed that a non-;bytes
compliant server would ignore requests like that.

>
> Interestingly those GET /index.html;bytes=1000- lines are all coming from
> Netscape 2.0b1 (The ones I examined were the Windows version).
>
> It's probably a bug; even www1.netscape.com's server doesn't like ;bytes=
> tacked on the end of requests.
>
> Mark
> Mark J Cox, mark@telescope.org -- URL:http://www.telescope.org/mark.html
> University of Bradford, England ---------- tel +44.1274.384070/fax 391333
>
>


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On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, sameer wrote:
> The ;bytes stuff is an extension that netscape added to HTTP I
> beleive -- from reading their material they claimed that a non-;bytes
> compliant server would ignore requests like that.

They are wrong.

Brian

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/*
* "Netscape ;bytes thing" by Mark J Cox <M.J.Cox@bradford.ac.uk>
* written Tue, 17 Oct 1995 16:31:14 +0100 (BST)
*
* Interestingly those GET /index.html;bytes=1000- lines are all
* coming from Netscape 2.0b1 (The ones I examined were the Windows
* version).
*
*/

NS2.0 isn't supposed to ask for a byte range unless the server puts an
Accept-ranges header on it when originally requested. I'll ask the
browser guys about it.

--Rob