Nginx always returns 206 with HTTP header 'Range: bytes=0-'

Server NGINX
#1

When requesting a static file with HTTP header “Range: bytes=0-”, nginx
always return 206 Partial Content. Is it a bug?

This issue can be reproduced like this:

curl -v -o /dev/null -H “Range: bytes=0-”
‘http://wiki.nginx.org/local/propaganda/postgresql.gif’

GET /local/propaganda/postgresql.gif HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5
OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Host: wiki.nginx.org
Accept: /
Range: bytes=0-

< HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
< Server: nginx/0.8.47
< Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:35:58 GMT
< Content-Type: image/gif
< Content-Length: 196
< Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:42:04 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Expires: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:35:58 GMT
< Cache-Control: max-age=2592000
< Content-Range: bytes 0-195/196
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
100 196 100 196 0 0 1329 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:--
0Connection #0 to host wiki.nginx.org left intact

Thanks,

  • Huan

Posted at Nginx Forum:
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,117223,117223#msg-117223

#2

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:52:29AM -0400, huandu wrote:

  • Connected to wiki.nginx.org (69.168.53.49) port 80
    < Content-Type: image/gif
    100 196 100 196 0 0 1329 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:--
    0Connection #0 to host wiki.nginx.org left intact

Apache does the same:

curl -v -o /dev/null -H “Range: bytes=0-” http://apache.org/robots.txt

  • About to connect() to apache.org port 80 (#0)
  • Trying 140.211.11.131… connected
  • Connected to apache.org (140.211.11.131) port 80 (#0)

GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
Host: apache.org
Accept: /
Range: bytes=0-

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:--
0< HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
< Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:39:52 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.3.7-dev (Unix) mod_ssl/2.3.7-dev OpenSSL/1.0.0a
< Last-Modified: Tue, 16 May 2006 11:57:46 GMT
< ETag: “910d4f-2f-413e682e08280”
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 47
< Cache-Control: max-age=86400
< Expires: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:39:52 GMT
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Content-Range: bytes 0-46/47
< Content-Type: text/plain
<
{ [data not shown]
0 47 0 47 0 0 77 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:--
152* Connection #0 to host apache.org left intact

  • Closing connection #0

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Igor S.
http://sysoev.ru/en/