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title: 206 Partial Content
slug: Web/HTTP/Status/206
browser-compat: http.status.206

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{{HTTPSidebar}}

The HTTP 206 Partial Content success status response code indicates that the request has succeeded and the body contains the requested ranges of data, as described in the {{HTTPHeader("Range")}} header of the request.

If there is only one range, the {{HTTPHeader("Content-Type")}} of the whole response is set to the type of the document, and a {{HTTPHeader("Content-Range")}} is provided.

If several ranges are sent back, the {{HTTPHeader("Content-Type")}} is set to multipart/byteranges and each fragment covers one range, with {{HTTPHeader("Content-Range")}} and {{HTTPHeader("Content-Type")}} describing it.

Status

206 Partial Content

Examples

A response containing one single range:

HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 06:25:24 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 04:58:08 GMT
Content-Range: bytes 21010-47021/47022
Content-Length: 26012
Content-Type: image/gif

# 26012 bytes of partial image data…

A response containing several ranges:

HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 06:25:24 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 2015 04:58:08 GMT
Content-Length: 1741
Content-Type: multipart/byteranges; boundary=String_separator

--String_separator
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Range: bytes 234-639/8000

# the first range
--String_separator
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Range: bytes 4590-7999/8000

# the second range
--String_separator--

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

• {{HTTPHeader("If-Range")}}

• {{HTTPHeader("Range")}}

• {{HTTPHeader("Content-Range")}}

• {{HTTPHeader("Content-Type")}}