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author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-11-28 00:50:25 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2016-11-28 00:50:25 +0100 |
commit | 5c4a526388e5d45f332d241b03114eaff98c53ce (patch) | |
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cmdline-opts: more command line options documented
Moved over to the new format
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diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/range.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/range.d new file mode 100644 index 000000000..760d15e22 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/range.d @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Long: range +Short: r +Help: Retrieve only the bytes within RANGE +Arg: <range> +Protocols: HTTP FTP SFTP FILE +--- +Retrieve a byte range (i.e a partial document) from a HTTP/1.1, FTP or SFTP +server or a local FILE. Ranges can be specified in a number of ways. +.RS +.TP 10 +.B 0-499 +specifies the first 500 bytes +.TP +.B 500-999 +specifies the second 500 bytes +.TP +.B -500 +specifies the last 500 bytes +.TP +.B 9500- +specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and forward +.TP +.B 0-0,-1 +specifies the first and last byte only(*)(HTTP) +.TP +.B 100-199,500-599 +specifies two separate 100-byte ranges(*) (HTTP) +.RE +.IP +(*) = NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a multipart +response! + +Only digit characters (0-9) are valid in the 'start' and 'stop' fields of the +\&'start-stop' range syntax. If a non-digit character is given in the range, +the server's response will be unspecified, depending on the server's +configuration. + +You should also be aware that many HTTP/1.1 servers do not have this feature +enabled, so that when you attempt to get a range, you'll instead get the whole +document. + +FTP and SFTP range downloads only support the simple 'start-stop' syntax +(optionally with one of the numbers omitted). FTP use depends on the extended +FTP command SIZE. + +If this option is used several times, the last one will be used. |