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2349	Support range requests in requests served via gzip_static	CAFxX@…		"As discussed in https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,209738,210053#msg-210053 nginx currently does not support range requests in responses that include `Content-Encoding: gzip`, the valid argument being that the industry-wide misuse of `Content-Encoding: gzip` in place of the more appropriate `Transfer-Encoding: gzip` for responses that are gzip-compressed on the fly makes it exceedingly hard to be able to satisfy such range requests.

It is worth noting though that this argument does not apply to responses served by gzip_static, as in this case the content is actually already gzip-encoded, and the length and ETag of the encoded content are known, and therefore satisfying the HTTP semantics of range requests + content-encoding is not difficult.

I would therefore suggest that, for responses that gzip_static can satisfy, the gzip_static module should add `Accept-Ranges: bytes` to the response (in addition to the `Etag`/`Last-Modified`/`Content-Encoding` headers that are already added), and add support for handling the `Range: <ranges>` and `If-Range: <etag>/<lastmod>` request headers in accordance with the HTTP spec (i.e. serve byte ranges interpreted as referring to the gzip-encoded resource; if an `If-Range` header is present in the request and it matches the current gzip-encoded resource, send 206 and the requested range, otherwise send 200 and the full gzip-encoded resource).

If we are worried this may break some non-compliant clients, it may be worthwhile to add an option to enable/disable range requests in gzip_static."	enhancement	closed	minor		nginx-module		fixed			Linux 02dfaaf22c02 5.10.104-linuxkit #1 SMP Wed Mar 9 19:05:23 UTC 2022 x86_64 Linux	"nginx version: nginx/1.21.6
built by gcc 10.3.1 20211027 (Alpine 10.3.1_git20211027)
built with OpenSSL 1.1.1l  24 Aug 2021 (running with OpenSSL 1.1.1n  15 Mar 2022)
TLS SNI support enabled
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