Paging in a Rest Collection

Question

I\'m interested in exposing a direct REST interface to collections of JSON documents (think CouchDB or Persevere). The problem I\'m running into is how to handle the G

Answer 1

My gut feeling is that the HTTP range extensions aren't designed for your use case, and thus you shouldn't try. A partial response implies 206, and 206 must only be sent if the client asked for it.

You may want to consider a different approach, such as the one use in Atom (where the representation by design may be partial, and is returned with a status 200, and potentially paging links). See RFC 4287 and RFC 5005.