Using the HTTP Range Header with a range specifier other than bytes?

Question

The core question is about the use of the HTTP Headers, including Range, If-Range, Accept-Ranges and a user defined range specifier.

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Answer 1

It sounds like you want to change the HTTP spec just to remove a querystring parameter. In order to do this you'd have to modify code on both the client to send the modified header and the server to read from the "Range" header instead of the querystring.

The end result is that this will probably work, but you're breaking all of the standards and existing tools to do so.