Fix WEBrick range requests for local video playback

WEBrick's not_modified? treats a Range request's If-Range header like
If-None-Match, replying 304 with no body instead of 206 with the
requested bytes. Browsers rely on this to fetch a video's trailing
moov atom, so jekyll serve was breaking playback for videos recorded
with metadata at the end of the file. Dev-server-only; production is
unaffected since it isn't served by WEBrick.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thomas Quinot 1 month ago
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# Dev-server-only fix: WEBrick's FileHandler#not_modified? treats a Range
# request's If-Range header the same as If-None-Match, replying 304 (no body)
# instead of 206 with the requested bytes. Browsers rely on ranged requests
# (with If-Range) to fetch a video's trailing moov atom when seeking/loading
# metadata, so this breaks video playback under `jekyll serve`.
# See https://github.com/ruby/webrick/blob/master/lib/webrick/httpservlet/filehandler.rb
#
require 'webrick'
module WebrickRangeFix
def not_modified?(req, res, mtime, etag)
req['Range'] ? false : super
end
end
WEBrick::HTTPServlet::DefaultFileHandler.prepend(WebrickRangeFix)
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