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  23. .TH CURLOPT_RANGE 3 "December 21, 2016" "libcurl 7.61.1" "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. Pass a NULL to this option to disable the use of ranges.
  43. The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
  44. option.
  45. .SH DEFAULT
  46. NULL
  47. .SH PROTOCOLS
  48. HTTP, FTP, FILE, RTSP and SFTP.
  49. .SH EXAMPLE
  50. .nf
  51. CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  52. if(curl) {
  53. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
  54. /* get the first 200 bytes */
  55. curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_RANGE, "0-199");
  56. /* Perform the request */
  57. curl_easy_perform(curl);
  58. }
  59. .fi
  60. .SH AVAILABILITY
  61. FILE since 7.18.0, RTSP since 7.20.0
  62. .SH RETURN VALUE
  63. Returns CURLE_OK on success or
  64. CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY if there was insufficient heap space.
  65. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  66. .BR CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM "(3), "