Use range request for CORS access check on Android.

content/renderer/media/android/media_info_loader.cc

Index: content/renderer/media/android/media_info_loader.cc
diff --git a/content/renderer/media/android/media_info_loader.cc b/content/renderer/media/android/media_info_loader.cc
index 3c22389e46e259e06265eb931cd9f29ec40cced1..ce3a299b7193b3bd36e5b23ac7f02175334f0eb7 100644
--- a/content/renderer/media/android/media_info_loader.cc
+++ b/content/renderer/media/android/media_info_loader.cc
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ using blink::WebURLResponse;
 namespace content {
 
 static const int kHttpOK = 200;
+static const int kHttpPartialContentOK = 206;
 
 MediaInfoLoader::MediaInfoLoader(
     const GURL& url,
@@ -50,6 +51,12 @@ void MediaInfoLoader::Start(blink::WebFrame* frame) {
   request.setRequestContext(WebURLRequest::RequestContextVideo);
   frame->setReferrerForRequest(request, blink::WebURL());
 
+  // Since we don't actually care about the media data at this time, use a two
+  // byte range request to avoid unnecessarily downloading resources.  Not all
+  // servers support HEAD unfortunately, so use a range request; which is no
+  // worse than the previous request+cancel code.  See http://crbug.com/400788
+  request.addHTTPHeaderField("Range", "bytes=0-1");
+
   scoped_ptr<WebURLLoader> loader;
   if (test_loader_) {
     loader = test_loader_.Pass();
@@ -123,7 +130,8 @@ void MediaInfoLoader::didReceiveResponse(
       DidBecomeReady(kOk);
       return;
   }
-  if (response.httpStatusCode() == kHttpOK) {
+  if (response.httpStatusCode() == kHttpOK ||
+      response.httpStatusCode() == kHttpPartialContentOK) {
     DidBecomeReady(kOk);
     return;
   }