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HTTP 206 Partial Content— What It Means, Causes & How to Fix It

The server is delivering only part of the resource due to a Range header sent by the client. This is used for resumable downloads and streaming media where only a portion of the content is requested.

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Common Causes

  • Resumable file download requesting a specific byte range
  • Video or audio streaming fetching chunks
  • Download manager splitting a file into parallel downloads

How to Fix

  1. 1No fix needed — partial content delivery is working correctly
  2. 2Verify the Content-Range header in the response
  3. 3Ensure the server supports Range requests for the resource

Example

HTTP 206 Partial Content
GET /video.mp4 HTTP/1.1
Range: bytes=0-1023

→ 206 Partial Content
→ Content-Range: bytes 0-1023/1048576

Related Success Codes

200

OK

201

Created

202

Accepted

203

Non-Authoritative Information

204

No Content

205

Reset Content

207

Multi-Status

208

Already Reported

226

IM Used

Commonly Referenced Status Codes

The most frequently searched HTTP status codes

200OK201Created204No Content301Moved Permanently302Found400Bad Request401Unauthorized403Forbidden404Not Found422Unprocessable Content429Too Many Requests500Internal Server Error502Bad Gateway503Service Unavailable504Gateway Timeout

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