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[Alex Hutnik <1916391@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Expected:

Apache2 should be able to serve Range requests for the first byte if it
can serve open-ended Range requests for the whole file

Observed:

I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. On this server, I have Apache set
up to serve video files from a CIFS mount. HTML5 clients are using HTTP
Range Requests to obtain random access to the files. A typical request
from a desktop looks like:

Range: bytes=0-

And Apache interprets that to mean "give me the whole file starting at
byte 0, through the end of the file"

A typical request from a mobile browser however, looks like this:

Range: bytes=0-1

Where the browser wants to grab the first byte (Probably to read some
video file meta data at the beginning of the file)

The second type of request, where only the first byte is requested, is failing. If I copy a video from the CIFS mount to the local disk, however, it works just fine. So there seems to be something about grabbing files from the CIFS by byte ranges. The CIFS and mount are using protocol SMBv3.
I've done some Googling and it seems like something regarding EnableSendfile is potentially a problem with remote mounts like CIFS or NFS. However, I can't seem to figure out why this used to work with an older version of cifs-utils and/or apache2 (I'm not sure which is really broken here).


More succinctly, here is the issue demonstrated with curl:

user@server:~$ curl http://localhost/videos/test_file.mp4 -H 'Range: bytes=0-1'
curl: (1) Received HTTP/0.9 when not allowed

user@server:~$ curl http://localhost/videos/test_file.mp4 -H 'Range: bytes=0-'
Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell
Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output
Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file.

OS:
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:        20.04

Relevant package info:
apache2:
  Installed: 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.1
  Candidate: 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.4.41-4ubuntu3 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
cifs-utils:
  Installed: 2:6.9-1ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 2:6.9-1ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 2:6.9-1ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:6.9-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

** Affects: apache2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Range requests broken on CIFS mounted document root

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