How to specify range >2GB for HttpWebRequest in .NET 3.5

Question

I\'m building this class to download files in parts/sections/segments. In .NET 4.0, I can use this code to specify the range to download from

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Answer 1

I believe the documentation gives some insight into that:

An example of a Range header in an HTTP protocol request that requests the first 100 bytes would be would be the following:

Range: bytes=-99\r\n\r\n

For this example, the rangeSpecifier parameter would be specified as "bytes" and the range parameter would be -99.

Then there is also this from Wikipedia:

Range
Request only part of an entity. Bytes are numbered from 0.
Range: bytes=500-999

So the code that you would result on the example above is

HttpWebRequest.AddRange("bytes", 500, 999);