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webapi.rst: document Range: header on GET requests

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@ -348,7 +348,10 @@ 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.
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.
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