Topic on Talk:Download

It is very disappointing that the seemingly *only* official source for MediaWiki releases, releases.wikimedia.org, requires client to support 206 partial content downloads.

Any client that cannot handle such chunked downloads will result in a truncated (=garbage) download.

I would like to see this configuration changed so that minimal clients could download MediaWiki releases.

A 206 response code should only be sent if your request contains a Range header. If you're seeing a 206 response code without sending a Range header, that's a bug, and we will need more details in order to isolate it.