Serve a static file with 206 Partial Content status

[ghost]

As far as I understand there's no built-in way to do so. Should I fork and modify static_file_handler.cr for this specific use-case in conformity with the status spec?

[sdogruyol]

Currently there's no built-in way to do this

[rdp]

I just ran into this myself, if you serve for instance an .mp4 from the "public" file then clients end up having to download the entire file before playing it, apparently since it doesn't advertise partial content headers...

[denysvitali]

I experience the same thing. Bummer

[denysvitali]

For anyone wondering, this is the error I receive while trying to stream something:

Unhandled exception in spawn:
Error writing file: Broken pipe (Errno)
0x41405e: ??? at /root/.cache/crystal/macro67609776.cr 10:28
0x4ad5ed: ??? at /opt/crystal/src/io/file_descriptor.cr 274:11
0x4ad0e7: ??? at /opt/crystal/src/io/buffered.cr 268:5
0x52561b: ??? at /opt/crystal/src/http/server/request_processor.cr 65:7
0x4167c8: ??? at /opt/crystal/src/fiber.cr 114:3
0x0: ??? at ??

[rdp]

@denysvitali I'm not sure if that's the same issue FWIW...

[sdogruyol]

This is now implemented in master via #299

[rdp]

Working great, thanks everybody!

[denysvitali]

Wonderful, even though I'm not sure it is fully-spec compliant (I didn't added the part of multiple ranges), it would be good if somebody can fully review it 👍