amazon web services - Specify byte range via query string in Get Object S3 request

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I'm familiar with the Range HTTP header; however, the interface I'm using to query S3 (an img element's .src property) doesn't allow me to specify HTTP headers.

Is there a way for me to specify my desired range via a parameter in the query string?

It doesn't seem like there is, but I'm just holding out a shred of hope before I roll my own solution with ajax requests.

Sorry to destroy your last shred of hope, but no, there's not a documented way to do this... but also, given that rfc-7233 indicates that


    Range:

support is optional in servers and proxies, and that the concept of a "partial" img is not necessarily something browsers might universally understand as a sane concept... what are you trying to accomplish with only a subset of an image's data? – Michael - sqlbot Nov 17, 2014 at 10:52

Amazon S3 supports Range GET requests, as do some HTTP servers, for example, Apache and IIS.

How CloudFront Processes Partial Requests for an Object (Range GETs)

I tried to get my S3 object via cURL:

curl -r 0-1024 https://s3.amazonaws.com/mybucket/myobject -o part1
curl -r 1025-  https://s3.amazonaws.com/mybucket/myobject -o part2
cat part1 part2 > myobject
and AWS SDK for JavaScript:
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
var file = require('fs').createWriteStream('part1');
var params = {
    Bucket: 'mybucket',
    Key: 'myobject',
    Range: 'bytes=0-1024'
s3.getObject(params).createReadStream().pipe(file);
These two methods work fine for me.
AWS SDK for JavaScript API Reference (getObject)
                in the above example will it download 1024 bytes or 1023? Is the end range value exclusive or inclusive?
– Shwetabh Shekhar
                Apr 16, 2018 at 5:57
                @ShwetabhShekhar appears to be inclusive; in fact 0-1024 gives 1025 bytes, not 1024 or 1023
– Janaka Bandara
                Sep 19, 2018 at 2:54
Below is the Java Code with AWS V2 SDK
format the range as below
var range = String.format("bytes=%d-%d", start, end);
and pass it in below api with GetObjectRequest builder
 ResponseBytes<GetObjectResponse> currentS3Obj = client.getObjectAsBytes(GetObjectRequest.builder().bucket(bucket).key(key).range(range).build());
return currentS3Obj.asInputStream();
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