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Comment by derefr

5 years ago

More interestingly, do reverse-proxies like Varnish / CDNs like Cloudflare support range requests? If so, do they fetch the whole content on the back, and then allow arbitrary range requests within the cached content on the front?

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derefr

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matsur  5 years ago

Yes, Cloudflare behaves as you describe.

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