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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Short: r
Help: Retrieve only the bytes within RANGE
Arg: <range>
Protocols: HTTP FTP SFTP FILE
+Category: http ftp sftp file
---
Retrieve a byte range (i.e. a partial document) from an HTTP/1.1, FTP or SFTP
server or a local FILE. Ranges can be specified in a number of ways.
@@ -28,7 +29,8 @@ specifies two separate 100-byte ranges(*) (HTTP)
.RE
.IP
(*) = NOTE that this will cause the server to reply with a multipart
-response!
+response, which will be returned as-is by curl! Parsing or otherwise
+transforming this response is the responsibility of the caller.
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,