Oracle iPlanet Web Server 7.0 Does Not Serve If-Range Correctly When the File Content is Changed. (Doc ID 1352955.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 12, 2022

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Symptoms

On iPlanet Web Server 7.0 version (7.0 to 7.0 update 12), when the HTTP request uses "If-Range: <e-tag>" HTTP header, even if the underlying document had changed, the response still returns "206 Partial Content" with a partial content. The expected response should be that the full HTTP content of the requested file need to be sent with HTTP status code 200.

A sample illustration of this can be seen below:

1. Access a static URL resource test.html.
    For example, let say resource "http://host:port/test.html", and record the HTTP header response:

The expected result according to HTTP specification is that if a "If-Range" request is made with a non-matching "Etag" value, a full content of the file with HTTP status code 200 be returned. This is not seen.

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