The following exchange is between Chrome and a static web server, retrieving an MP4 video.
Initial request – for the video. Note the Accept-Ranges response header to indicate the server has range header support:
GET /BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en
Host: localhost:8080
Range:
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml,*/*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 ...
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8,*
200 OK
Content-Type: video/mp4
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Wed,14 Dec 2011 15:50:59 GMT
ETag: A023EF02BD589BC472A2D6774EAE3C58
Transfer-Encoding:
Content-Length: 64657027
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Brisket/1.0.1
Date: Wed,14 Dec 2011 16:11:24 GMT
Range header in previous response detected – subsequent request with open-ended range to confirm support. Response returns a 206 status and Content-Range header to indicate the bytes present in the response body:
GET /BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en
Host: localhost:8080
Range: bytes=0-
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 ...
Referer: http://localhost:8080/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
Accept-Encoding: identity
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8,*
206 Partial Content
Content-Type: video/mp4
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Wed,14 Dec 2011 15:50:59 GMT
ETag: A023EF02BD589BC472A2D6774EAE3C58
Transfer-Encoding:
Content-Length: 64657027
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Brisket/1.0.1
Date: Wed,14 Dec 2011 16:11:25 GMT
Content-Range: bytes 0-64657026/64657027
Subsequent range request to capture the end of the file (probably to capture trailing metadata):
GET /BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en
Host: localhost:8080
Range: bytes=64312833-64657026
Accept: */*
If-Range: A023EF02BD589BC472A2D6774EAE3C58
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 ...
Referer: http://localhost:8080/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
Accept-Encoding: identity
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8,*
206 Partial Content
Content-Type: video/mp4
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Wed,14 Dec 2011 15:50:59 GMT
ETag: A023EF02BD589BC472A2D6774EAE3C58
Transfer-Encoding:
Content-Length: 344194
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Brisket/1.0.1
Date: Wed,14 Dec 2011 16:11:25 GMT
Content-Range: bytes 64312833-64657026/64657027
User clicks in the video progress bar beyond the downloaded range – a range request is issued to begin playing from the selected position:
GET /BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US,en
Host: localhost:8080
Range: bytes=1073152-64313343
Accept: */*
If-Range: A023EF02BD589BC472A2D6774EAE3C58
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 ...
Referer: http://localhost:8080/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
Accept-Encoding: identity
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8,*
206 Partial Content
Content-Type: video/mp4
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Wed,14 Dec 2011 15:50:59 GMT
ETag: A023EF02BD589BC472A2D6774EAE3C58
Transfer-Encoding:
Content-Length: 63240192
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Brisket/1.0.1
Date: Wed,14 Dec 2011 16:11:25 GMT
Content-Range: bytes 1073152-64313343/64657027