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improve HTTP byte-range docs

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Brian Warner 2015-07-28 13:28:36 -07:00
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docs/frontends/webapi.rst
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@ -348,10 +348,15 @@ Reading a File
``GET /uri/$DIRCAP/[SUBDIRS../]FILENAME``
This will retrieve the contents of the given file. The HTTP response body
will contain the sequence of bytes that make up the file. The "Range:"
header can be used to restrict which portions of the file are returned (see
RFC 2616 section 14.35.1 "Byte Ranges"), however Tahoe only supports a
single "bytes" range and never provides a `multipart/byteranges` response.
will contain the sequence of bytes that make up the file.
The "Range:" header can be used to restrict which portions of the file are
returned (see RFC 2616 section 14.35.1 "Byte Ranges"), however Tahoe only
supports a single "bytes" range and never provides a `multipart/byteranges`
response. An attempt to begin a read past the end of the file will provoke a
416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable error, but normal overruns (reads which
start at the beginning or middle and go beyond the end) are simply
truncated.
To view files in a web browser, you may want more control over the
Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers. Please see the next section