We want to be able to support the standard HTTP "bytes=" parameter. For example, call /api/access/datafile/<id>?bytes=8192-8208 and get just the 16 bytes at the 8K offset, instead of the entire file.
(it's "working" for some people in our own prod. Dataverse - see #5957 - but only because we redirect to S3, which does understand the parameter).
To implement it, we should add some form of "open at offset specified" functionality to the StorageIO structure. Then adding the handling of the extra parameter to the Access API should be trivial.
Should be straightforward overall.