HTTP 206 — Partial Content

The server is delivering only part of the resource due to a range header sent by the client

When to use it

Use status 206 when this is the correct HTTP response semantic: The server is delivering only part of the resource due to a range header sent by the client

Request and response example

GET /resource HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com

HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Content-Type: application/json

Related status codes

200, 201, 202, 203

References

MDN · RFC 9110