Can methods other than GET support Range?

[reschke]

14.2:

"A server MUST ignore a Range header field received with a request method other than GET."

16.1.2:

"Likewise, if the new method might have some use for partial response semantics (Section 14.2), it ought to document this, too."

[royfielding]

I can see why someone might want to use it with SEARCH as well, though they would more likely use a page parameter. I can't think of any other use case.

[reschke]

FWIW, that's exactly how it was used by MS in Exchange SEARCH: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/exchange-server-2003/aa123634(v=exchg.65)

We need to decide which of the statements in our spec is correct.

[royfielding]

Huh, that's news for me. We could have used that example for Range extensions.

[reschke]

Change requirement to MUST ignore Range when not defined for that method or the method is unrecognized.