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in thread Determining Content-Length when there is no Content-Length header

Nice idea, but not all web servers / web applications support byte ranges. I think the proper behaviour for a web server is to ignore the unknown / unsupported header and send the entire resource -- which is clearly not what the OP wanted. See also Re: Determining Content-Length when there is no Content-Length header

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