Support for multipart range requests

wgreenberg commented 2 years ago

Feature Proposal

Currently, webpack-dev-middleware only supports single-range requests, and will return the entire requested resource if multiple ranges are specified (https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-middleware/blob/master/src/middleware.js#L215-L218). I didn't see any documentation around this, or previous discussion about why it wasn't supported, so figured it'd be worth requesting the feature.

Feature Use Case

A multipart range request would allow noclip.website to load specific meshes/game objects efficiently without shipping an otherwise incredibly large (sometimes >1GB) game data file.

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