diff --git a/packages/realm-server/server.ts b/packages/realm-server/server.ts
index c3cff5cff36..9f423041ade 100644
--- a/packages/realm-server/server.ts
+++ b/packages/realm-server/server.ts
@@ -1109,8 +1109,15 @@ export class RealmServer {
       .use(
         cors({
           origin: '*',
+          // Range/If-Range are here for native media playback: <audio>/<video>
+          // elements cannot attach Authorization, so the host's auth service
+          // worker re-issues their requests as mode:'cors' with the token
+          // injected. That rewrite turns the media element's Range header into
+          // an author header needing preflight approval — without Range in
+          // this list the preflight fails and the player errors before any
+          // bytes flow.
           allowHeaders:
-            'Authorization, Content-Type, If-Match, If-None-Match, X-Requested-With, X-Boxel-Client-Request-Id, X-Boxel-Assume-User, X-HTTP-Method-Override, X-Boxel-Disable-Module-Cache, X-Filename, X-Boxel-During-Prerender, X-Boxel-Consuming-Realm, X-Boxel-Job-Id, X-Boxel-Job-Priority, X-Boxel-Logging-Correlation-Id, X-Grafana-Device-Id, X-Grafana-Action',
+            'Authorization, Content-Type, If-Match, If-None-Match, If-Range, Range, X-Requested-With, X-Boxel-Client-Request-Id, X-Boxel-Assume-User, X-HTTP-Method-Override, X-Boxel-Disable-Module-Cache, X-Filename, X-Boxel-During-Prerender, X-Boxel-Consuming-Realm, X-Boxel-Job-Id, X-Boxel-Job-Priority, X-Boxel-Logging-Correlation-Id, X-Grafana-Device-Id, X-Grafana-Action',
           // Without an explicit expose list, @koa/cors only emits the
           // CORS-safelisted response headers (cache-control, content-*,
           // expires, last-modified, pragma). ETag is not on that list,
@@ -1121,7 +1128,11 @@ export class RealmServer {
           // protocol invisible to JS. Location/Retry-After are likewise
           // non-safelisted; expose them so a cross-origin client can read
           // the async-publish status monitor target off the 202 response.
-          exposeHeaders: 'ETag, Location, Retry-After',
+          // Content-Range/Accept-Ranges are what a cross-origin caller needs
+          // to reason about a 206 byte-range response (Content-Length is
+          // safelisted, but is listed for symmetry with the range pair).
+          exposeHeaders:
+            'ETag, Location, Retry-After, Content-Range, Accept-Ranges, Content-Length',
           allowMethods: 'GET,HEAD,PUT,POST,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS,QUERY',
           // Cache the preflight response for 24 h. Without this @koa/cors
           // omits Access-Control-Max-Age and Chrome falls back to its
diff --git a/packages/realm-server/tests/index.ts b/packages/realm-server/tests/index.ts
index 764eb557fa1..9a8448da1c1 100644
--- a/packages/realm-server/tests/index.ts
+++ b/packages/realm-server/tests/index.ts
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ const ALL_TEST_FILES: string[] = [
   './file-watcher-events-test',
   './full-index-on-startup-test',
   './full-reindex-test',
+  './http-range-test',
+  './range-request-test',
   './http2-keepalive-test',
   './indexing-test',
   './lazy-mount-test',
diff --git a/packages/realm-server/tests/range-request-test.ts b/packages/realm-server/tests/range-request-test.ts
index 92f66bda873..7df29899ced 100644
--- a/packages/realm-server/tests/range-request-test.ts
+++ b/packages/realm-server/tests/range-request-test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import QUnit from 'qunit';
 const { module, test } = QUnit;
 import { basename } from 'path';
+import type { Test, SuperTest } from 'supertest';
 import {
   setupPermissionedRealmCached,
   withRealmPath,
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ module(basename(import.meta.filename), function () {
   module('Realm-specific Endpoints | Range requests', function (hooks) {
     let realmURL = new URL('http://127.0.0.1:4444/test/');
     let request: RealmRequest;
+    let serverRequest: SuperTest<Test>;
 
     setupPermissionedRealmCached(hooks, {
       fixture: 'simple',
@@ -25,6 +27,7 @@ module(basename(import.meta.filename), function () {
         '@node-test_realm:localhost': ['read', 'realm-owner'],
       },
       onRealmSetup: (args) => {
+        serverRequest = args.request;
         request = withRealmPath(args.request, realmURL);
       },
     });
@@ -223,5 +226,63 @@ module(basename(import.meta.filename), function () {
 
       assert.strictEqual(response.status, 304, 'HTTP 304 status');
     });
+
+    // CORS treatment of byte-range media requests. Native <audio>/<video>
+    // elements cannot attach Authorization, so the host's auth service worker
+    // re-issues their requests as mode:'cors' with the token injected. That
+    // rewrite turns the media element's Range header into an author header
+    // needing preflight approval, and makes the 206's descriptive headers
+    // (Content-Range, Accept-Ranges) visible to the player's loading stack
+    // only when exposed.
+    test('preflight approves Range and If-Range author headers', async function (assert) {
+      let response = await serverRequest
+        .options('/test/preflight.png')
+        .set('Origin', 'https://app.example')
+        .set('Access-Control-Request-Method', 'GET')
+        .set(
+          'Access-Control-Request-Headers',
+          'range, if-range, authorization',
+        );
+
+      assert.strictEqual(response.status, 204, 'HTTP 204 status');
+      let allowed = (response.headers['access-control-allow-headers'] ?? '')
+        .toLowerCase()
+        .split(/,\s*/);
+      assert.true(allowed.includes('range'), 'Range is approved');
+      assert.true(allowed.includes('if-range'), 'If-Range is approved');
+      assert.true(
+        allowed.includes('authorization'),
+        'Authorization is approved',
+      );
+    });
+
+    test('a ranged response exposes its range headers to cross-origin JS', async function (assert) {
+      await uploadSample('/cors-expose.png');
+      let response = await getSample('/cors-expose.png')
+        .set('Origin', 'https://app.example')
+        .set('Range', 'bytes=2-5');
+
+      assert.strictEqual(response.status, 206, 'HTTP 206 status');
+      assert.strictEqual(
+        response.headers['access-control-allow-origin'],
+        '*',
+        'the response is a CORS response, without which no expose list is consulted',
+      );
+      let exposed = (response.headers['access-control-expose-headers'] ?? '')
+        .toLowerCase()
+        .split(/,\s*/);
+      assert.true(
+        exposed.includes('content-range'),
+        'Content-Range is exposed',
+      );
+      assert.true(
+        exposed.includes('accept-ranges'),
+        'Accept-Ranges is exposed',
+      );
+      assert.true(
+        exposed.includes('content-length'),
+        'Content-Length is exposed',
+      );
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/runtime-common/create-response.ts b/packages/runtime-common/create-response.ts
index b2e5df9c8e0..e649c153b1a 100644
--- a/packages/runtime-common/create-response.ts
+++ b/packages/runtime-common/create-response.ts
@@ -28,8 +28,15 @@ export function createResponse({
       // which is why `Retry-After` appears below: readiness pairs it with
       // `X-Boxel-Not-Ready` on a 503, and a cross-origin caller that could read
       // the stage but not the retry hint would only have half the answer.
+      // Content-Range/Accept-Ranges must be exposed because the host's auth
+      // service worker hands the CORS-filtered Response from its own fetch()
+      // straight to the media element via respondWith. A header absent from
+      // this list is pruned from that filtered Response, so it is invisible
+      // to the player's loading stack, not just to app JS. Content-Length is
+      // CORS-safelisted and survives regardless; it is named alongside the
+      // pair so the range trio reads as one unit.
       'Access-Control-Expose-Headers':
-        'X-Boxel-Realm-Url,X-Boxel-Realm-Public-Readable,X-Boxel-Realm-Archived,X-Boxel-Canonical-Path,X-Boxel-Not-Ready,Authorization,Cache-Control,ETag,Retry-After',
+        'X-Boxel-Realm-Url,X-Boxel-Realm-Public-Readable,X-Boxel-Realm-Archived,X-Boxel-Canonical-Path,X-Boxel-Not-Ready,Authorization,Cache-Control,ETag,Retry-After,Content-Range,Accept-Ranges,Content-Length',
     },
   });
 }