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> Not all webservers support/enable it

Could you provide an example of server that does not?

AFAIK, Range is supported by all major CDNs, so not supporting it in web server would be a death knell for it's real-world adoption.



I can't think of a specific one, but a decent proportion (maybe a quarter?) of HTTP downloads I attempt don't support resuming a partial download, therefore don't support Range. (I.e. resuming always starts from the beginning.)

I would assume this is often because the site in question isn't using Apache etc. to serve a file directly, but is either essentially proxying it to some custom-built file serving service, or a script that processes/authenticates the file in some way, and they just never bothered to implement Range.


Depends on what’s being served. Any decent static file server should support it, but if the content is at all dynamically produced then the authors would have to think to implement it and rarely do.




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