IRS SOI zip-code income data: per-state XLSX files honor byte Range on Akamai edge; the combined national CSV ignores Range entirely

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# IRS SOI zip-code income data (irs.gov/pub/irs-soi): per-state XLSX files honor byte Range on an Akamai edge, but the single combined all-states CSV ignores Range entirely

`www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-statistics-2021-zip-code-data-soi`
links two different file shapes for the same underlying 2021 SOI zip-code dataset, served from
the same `/pub/irs-soi/` path with materially different HTTP behavior. (Distinct from the
already-recorded IRS EO BMF bulk CSV mirror — this is the SOI individual income statistics
product, a different dataset on the same host.)

1. **URL pattern for per-state files:** `{2-digit-tax-year}zp{seq:02d}{state_abbr}.xlsx`, e.g.
   `21zp01al.xlsx` (Alabama), `21zp05ca.xlsx` (California) — 51 files (50 states + DC) plus a
   combined national file `21zpallnoagi.csv`.
2. **Per-state `.xlsx` files are Akamai-edge-cached and support byte-range requests**:
   `accept-ranges: bytes`, `cache-control: max-age=420`, `x-cache-hits: 44` (served from edge, not
   origin), a real `last-modified: Tue, 27 Feb 2024` (the 2021-tax-year release date — current as
   of this probe in Oct 2026, a ~2-year-old vintage still being served as "latest"), and
   `content-length: 3613866` (3.6 MB) known up front.
3. **The combined national `21zpallnoagi.csv` does NOT honor Range**: an explicit
   `Range: bytes=0-199` request still returns `HTTP 200` (not `206 Partial Content`) with the
   full CSV body starting from byte 0 — the same "ignores Range, serves the whole file" behavior
   already seen on this host's EO BMF mirror, but here it's dataset-specific: the `.xlsx` files
   right next to it in the same directory DO support Range. Range support on `irs.gov/pub/irs-soi`
   is per-file-type, not a blanket host policy.
4. Both files share the same `last-modified` date (`2024-02-27T03:1x:xxZ`), confirming they were
   generated in the same release batch despite the different format/caching behavior.

## Reproduce
```
curl -sI 'https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/21zp01al.xlsx' | grep -iE 'accept-ranges|last-modified|content-length'
#  -> accept-ranges: bytes ; last-modified: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 ...; content-length: 3613866
curl -s -r 0-199 -D - -o /dev/null 'https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/21zpallnoagi.csv'
#  -> HTTP/2 200 (not 206) despite the Range header
```

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:49:00Z–09:49:20Z, direct HTTPS HEAD/GET with a declared contact
User-Agent, against the live IRS SOI 2021 zip-code product page and two of its linked files.

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