Nexus not supporting http negative range or supporting it incorrectly (Range: bytes=-10000)

What problem are you trying to solve? When migrating to latest poetry 1.8.0 there is an issue with nexus returning 404 instead of range not supported for negative ranges.

https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/9033

curl -v -H "Range: bytes=-10000" https://myuser:mypass@nexus.mycompany.net/repository/pypi-blessed/packages/mccabe/0.7.0/mccabe-0.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl\#sha256\=3259e7631b90a2a25934467501437109b9bead9db61aedf3539e79873759a6c0   
*   Trying x.x.x.x:443...
* using HTTP/1.1
* Server auth using Basic with user 'bitstamp'
> GET /repository/pypi-blessed/packages/mccabe/0.7.0/mccabe-0.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl HTTP/1.1
> Host: nexus.mycompany.net
> Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=
> User-Agent: curl/8.4.0
> Accept: */*
> Range: bytes=-10000
> 
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Server: nginx/1.24.0
< Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:04:24 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 1824
< Connection: keep-alive
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Content-Security-Policy: sandbox allow-forms allow-modals allow-popups allow-presentation allow-scripts allow-top-navigation
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
< Pragma: no-cache
< Expires: 0
< X-Frame-Options: DENY

curl -v -H "Range: bytes=0-100" https://myuser:mypass@nexus.mycompany.net/repository/pypi-blessed/packages/mccabe/0.7.0/mccabe-0.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl\#sha256\=3259e7631b90a2a25934467501437109b9bead9db61aedf3539e79873759a6c0   

< HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
< Server: nginx/1.24.0
< Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:10:20 GMT
< Content-Type: application/zip
< Content-Length: 101
< Connection: keep-alive
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Content-Security-Policy: sandbox allow-forms allow-modals allow-popups allow-presentation allow-scripts allow-top-navigation
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
< Content-Range: bytes 0-100/7348
< Last-Modified: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:35:05 GMT
< ETag: "{SHA1{6e0fd745753c9ec01a68b98e738da71382411d32}}"

Do you have a workaround you are using at present? They implemented a workaround to fallback in case any http error is returned (404).
What feature or behavior is this required for? To optimize dependency resolving by not needed to download whole content.
How could we solve this issue? (Not knowing is okay!) Support negative range or return correct http error code. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Range 416 Range Not Satisfiable error.
Tell us about your Nexus Repository deployment: what version, operating system, and database are you using? Sonatype Nexus RepositoryOSS 3.52.0-01
Anything else? /

sonatype / nexus-public

Nexus not supporting http negative range or supporting it incorrectly (Range: bytes=-10000) #346