Content-Range

The Content-Range response HTTP header indicates where in a full body message a partial message belongs.

Header type	Response header
Forbidden header name	no

Syntax

Content-Range: <unit> <range-start>-<range-end>/<size>
Content-Range: <unit> <range-start>-<range-end>/*
Content-Range: <unit> */<size>

Directives

<unit>

The unit in which ranges are specified. This is usually bytes.

<range-start>

An integer in the given unit indicating the beginning of the request range.

<range-end>

An integer in the given unit indicating the end of the requested range.

<size>

The total size of the document (or '*' if unknown).

Examples

Content-Range: bytes 200-1000/67589 

Specifications

Specification	Title
RFC 7233, section 4.2: Content-Range	Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests

Browser compatibility

See also

• If-Range
• Range
• Content-Type
• 206 Partial Content
• 416 Range Not Satisfiable