[Feature Request] Range requests

[pftbest]

Description

Example:

curl -i --header "Range: bytes=100-107" "http://127.0.0.1:8000/large_file.bin"

Should reply with 206 Partial Content and 8 bytes of data

Why is this useful?

I wanted to stream some video files to my TV but was not able to ff/rewind the video, as it requires range requests.

How should this work?

I guess HEAD requests should also be supported to make this work.

[LeoBorai]

Hey @pftbest! Thanks for opening this issue.

Sounds pretty interesting, currently as you mention the server doesn't support this behavior, but we can of course provide it if needed.

Are you willing to work on it? Recently we updated dependencies to be up-to-date with most recent hyper, we can use Tower ecosystem middleware, do you know if theres any middleware we could use?

Thanks for sharing!

[pftbest]

Sorry, I switched to simple-http-server for this use case. Their UI doesn't look as good as yours is, but they do support all HTTP features that I need.