On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:45:20PM -0400, Michael Schreiber wrote:
> Is there a method for suppressing the multi-part response when
> grabbing a non-overlapping range from a file?

No. It's a mandatory part of HTTP 1.1:

   When an HTTP 206 (Partial Content) response message includes the
   content of multiple ranges (a response to a request for multiple
   non-overlapping ranges), these are transmitted as a multipart
   message-body. The media type for this purpose is called
   "multipart/byteranges".

If you write a program to use libcurl directly, you could send multiple
simultaneous pipelined requests, each requesting a different part of the
file. The resulting data would be automatically concatenated the way you
want and would be just about as efficient as a single request. But you
can't do that from the command-line client.

>>> Dan

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