HTTP GET with Range header by curl

curl_range.md

# normal(explicitly specified start AND end)
curl -v -X GET -H "range: bytes=1-8" http://localhost:8080/bbb/test

# specified ONLY start(end will be specified at the end of file)
curl -v -X GET -H "range: bytes=10-" http://localhost:8080/bbb/test

# specified ONLY one negative value(last N bytes of file will be retrieved)
curl -v -X GET -H "range: bytes=-11" http://localhost:8080/bbb/test

# multi(specified multi ranges by using comma)
curl -v -X GET -H "range: bytes=0-8,10-" http://localhost:8080/bbb/test

code for testing:

mkdir bbb
echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" > bbb/test
hs

hs refers to http-server, which can be installed with [sudo] npm i http-server -g.