From a93af43974c02c675443e285fa9d9710b2f0a7c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:31:27 +0000 Subject: - Song Ma's warning if -r/--range is given with a "bad" range, also noted in the man page now. --- docs/curl.1 | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/curl.1') diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1 index dd5d1d758..a4bc9f00e 100644 --- a/docs/curl.1 +++ b/docs/curl.1 @@ -941,6 +941,10 @@ specifies two separate 100 bytes ranges(*)(H) (*) = NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a multipart response! +Only digit characters (0-9) are valid in 'start' and 'stop' of range syntax +\&'start-stop'. If a non-digit character is given in the range, the server's +response will be unexpectable, depending on different server's configuration. + You should also be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers do not have this feature enabled, so that when you attempt to get a range, you'll instead get the whole document. -- cgit v1.2.3