Looks like the issue is that the useragent doesn't set (or clear) the
range header in the request object if it already has one.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Bugs in libwww-perl via RT
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> Once a useragent has been used to send requests, changing its max_size
> doesn't seem to affect the Range header being sent with subsequent
> requests. In the sample code below, both requests are sent with the
> Range header as "bytes=0-2097151".
>
> my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent(max_size => 2048 * 1024);
> my $req = new HTTP::Request(GET => $url);
> my $response = $ua->request($req);
> $ua->max_size(undef);
> $response = $ua->request($req);
>
