How can I find out whether a server supports the Range header?

Question

I have been trying to stream audio from a particular point by using the Range header values but I always get the song right from the beginning. I am doing this through a pro

Answer 1

This is for others searching how to do this. You can use curl:

curl -I http://exampleserver.com/example_video.mp4

In the header you should see

Accept-Ranges: bytes

You can go further and test retrieving a range

curl --header "Range: bytes=100-107" -I http://exampleserver.com/example_vide0.mp4

and in the headers you should see

HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content

and

Content-Range: bytes 100-107/10000000
Content-Length: 8

[instead of 10000000 you'll see the length of the file]