Annotation of embedaddon/curl/docs/cmdline-opts/range.d, revision 1.1
1.1 ! misho 1: Long: range
! 2: Short: r
! 3: Help: Retrieve only the bytes within RANGE
! 4: Arg: <range>
! 5: Protocols: HTTP FTP SFTP FILE
! 6: ---
! 7: Retrieve a byte range (i.e. a partial document) from an HTTP/1.1, FTP or SFTP
! 8: server or a local FILE. Ranges can be specified in a number of ways.
! 9: .RS
! 10: .TP 10
! 11: .B 0-499
! 12: specifies the first 500 bytes
! 13: .TP
! 14: .B 500-999
! 15: specifies the second 500 bytes
! 16: .TP
! 17: .B -500
! 18: specifies the last 500 bytes
! 19: .TP
! 20: .B 9500-
! 21: specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and forward
! 22: .TP
! 23: .B 0-0,-1
! 24: specifies the first and last byte only(*)(HTTP)
! 25: .TP
! 26: .B 100-199,500-599
! 27: specifies two separate 100-byte ranges(*) (HTTP)
! 28: .RE
! 29: .IP
! 30: (*) = NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a multipart
! 31: response!
! 32:
! 33: Only digit characters (0-9) are valid in the 'start' and 'stop' fields of the
! 34: \&'start-stop' range syntax. If a non-digit character is given in the range,
! 35: the server's response will be unspecified, depending on the server's
! 36: configuration.
! 37:
! 38: You should also be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers do not have this feature
! 39: enabled, so that when you attempt to get a range, you'll instead get the whole
! 40: document.
! 41:
! 42: FTP and SFTP range downloads only support the simple 'start-stop' syntax
! 43: (optionally with one of the numbers omitted). FTP use depends on the extended
! 44: FTP command SIZE.
! 45:
! 46: If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
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