From: David Wolever <david@wolever.net>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 04:40:50 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Note about conditional return of HTTP 206
X-Git-Tag: v3.1.0~56^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a1adcaf01f987cefde8230c3f5934d2aba8d4183;p=thirdparty%2Ftornado.git

Note about conditional return of HTTP 206
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diff --git a/tornado/web.py b/tornado/web.py
index 51c652c3e..bbf68d05c 100644
--- a/tornado/web.py
+++ b/tornado/web.py
@@ -1810,6 +1810,10 @@ class StaticFileHandler(RequestHandler):
             size = self.get_content_size()
             if start < 0:
                 start += size
+            # Note: only return HTTP 206 if less than the entire range has been
+            # requested. Not only is this semantically correct, but Chrome
+            # refuses to play audio if it gets an HTTP 206 in response to
+            # ``Range: bytes=0-``.
             if size != (end or size) - (start or 0):
                 self.set_status(206)  # Partial Content
             self.set_header("Content-Range",