lidel
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3 months ago Good question. An inlined block, once "deserialized from identity Multihash" is a valid UnixFS file (it can be dag-pb or raw), so I think the spec covers them.
Good that we support them, (very useful for tests and health-checks), but also unlikely anyone will request range of such small data in real world :)
https://github.com/ipfs/specs/blob/937754aa4b7aa96763be40e1503a4fda3f766ad6/src/http-gateways/path-gateway.md?plain=1#L163-L164
Should we be supporting range requests for identity blocks as well?
ipfs-unixfs-exporter has support for these: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aipfs%2Fjs-ipfs-unixfs%20path%3Apackages%2Fipfs-unixfs-exporter%20validateOffsetAndLength&type=code