[laumars]

Yes the server would need to support it. The request is made via a HTTP header (Range[1] IIRC).

Also, I wouldn't consider that a stupid question. :)

[1] https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#Rang...

[hobarrera]

This is also how download accelerators worked (back in the late nineties, early naught's), by having different connections work at several ranges to maximize bandwidth usage.

[laumars]

Funny enough, it was writing a download accelerator that taught me about the Range HTTP request header.