Bug 236796 – Range requests to objectURL results in a 416 status and failed video playback

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: Media

[Adam Podolnick]

Created attachment 452402 [details]
Test Case

Safari seems to be making range requests when making requests to object URLs that are used as sources for a video element. Prior to 15.4, Safari would not add a Range header to the request. Now it is adding a Range: bytes=0-* header to the request which results in a 416 error status causing video playback to fail on iPhone and iPad.

I've attached a test case that shows the unexpected behavior.

Was this change intentional? If so, are there workarounds?

[Adam Podolnick]

Created attachment 452403 [details]
15.3 does not send Range header

[Adam Podolnick]

Created attachment 452404 [details]
15.4 adds a Range header resulting in a 416

[Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders]]

I presume, from your email, this is affecting at least some https://sproutvideo.com hosted videos?

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/89110139>

[Adam Podolnick]

(In reply to Sam Sneddon [:gsnedders] from comment #3)
> I presume, from your email, this is affecting at least some
> https://sproutvideo.com hosted videos?

Hi, Sam! That's correct. This affects videos hosted on sproutvideo.com.

[Maciej Stachowiak]

According to info in the radar, this is a dupe of https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236401 (which is already fixed on mainline)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 236401 ***