416 Range Not Satisfiable
It’s possible for a client to request partial responses from a server. For example, a client might only want the first 5 minutes of a video, or the last 100 lines of a log file.
HTTP clients and servers can do this with range requests.
For example, this request asks for the first 100 bytes:
GET /foo.md HTTP/1.1
Range: bytes=1-100
If a server doesn’t support range requests, it will return 200 OK and
returns the entire resource. If it did support range requests, it can use
206 Partial Content and return just what the client asked for.
However, if a client requested a range that didn’t make sense, it can use
416 Range Not Satisfiable to indicate this. For example, maybe a file
was 1024 bytes, and the client asked for bytes 2000-3000.
HTTP/1.1 416 Range Not Satisfiable
Content-Range: bytes */1000
References
- RFC7233, Section 4.4 - 416 Range Not Satisfiable