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  23. .TH CURLOPT_RANGE 3 "17 Jun 2014" "libcurl 7.37.0" "curl_easy_setopt options"
  24. .SH NAME
  25. CURLOPT_RANGE \- set byte range to request
  26. .SH SYNOPSIS
  27. #include <curl/curl.h>
  28. CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_RANGE, char *range);
  29. .SH DESCRIPTION
  30. Pass a char * as parameter, which should contain the specified range you want
  31. to retrieve. It should be in the format "X-Y", where either X or Y may be left
  32. out and X and Y are byte indexes.
  33. HTTP transfers also support several intervals, separated with commas as in
  34. \fI"X-Y,N-M"\fP. Using this kind of multiple intervals will cause the HTTP
  35. server to send the response document in pieces (using standard MIME separation
  36. techniques). Unfortunately, the HTTP standard (RFC 7233 section 3.1) allows
  37. servers to ignore range requests so even when you set \fICURLOPT_RANGE(3)\fP
  38. for a request, you may end up getting the full response sent back.
  39. For RTSP, the formatting of a range should follow RFC2326 Section 12.29. For
  40. RTSP, byte ranges are \fBnot\fP permitted. Instead, ranges should be given in
  41. npt, utc, or smpte formats.
  42. For HTTP PUT uploads this option should not be used, since it may conflict with
  43. other options. If you need to upload arbitrary parts of a file (like for
  44. Amazon's web services) support is limited. We suggest set resume position using
  45. \fICURLOPT_RESUME_FROM(3)\fP, set end (resume+size) position using
  46. \fICURLOPT_INFILESIZE(3)\fP and seek to the resume position before initiating
  47. the transfer for each part. For more information refer to
  48. https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2019-05/0012.html
  49. Pass a NULL to this option to disable the use of ranges.
  50. The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
  51. option.
  52. .SH DEFAULT
  53. NULL
  54. .SH PROTOCOLS
  55. HTTP, FTP, FILE, RTSP and SFTP.
  56. .SH EXAMPLE
  57. .nf
  58. CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  59. if(curl) {
  60. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
  61. /* get the first 200 bytes */
  62. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "0-199");
  63. /* Perform the request */
  64. curl_easy_perform(curl);
  65. }
  66. .fi
  67. .SH AVAILABILITY
  68. FILE since 7.18.0, RTSP since 7.20.0
  69. .SH RETURN VALUE
  70. Returns CURLE_OK on success or
  71. CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
  72. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  73. .BR CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM "(3), "