On 11/30/98 8:45 AM Dave Witzel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I've got a particular PDF file i care about that is large (over 6 meg) and >has a lot of requests. Analog reports that 3/4's of the requests are "206 >Partial content". my question is "what does a '206' mean in practice?" did >users get part of a PDF file (which i assume is useless)? or did they abort >the connection? or did the browser break the download into multiple requests >(in which case my estimate of times the file was downloaded is too high)? >or does this represent some kind of caching behavior? The PDFViewer plug-in from Adobe, which allows you to view PDF files directly in your browser, will only read portions of the entire PDF file. It uses partial content transfers to get only those portions of the PDF file that it needs to display the pages the user actualy views. This only works if your PDF file has been written with the correct "optimization", the web server supports partial transfers, and the user is viewing with the PDFViewer plugin. There can be quite a few partial transfers for a single client. As they page through the document the viewer will fetch different portions of the file. In almost all cases there is a savings in total bandwidth. Jason ----------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- Dr. Seuss books . . . can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For example, 'One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish' can be deconstructed as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system. -- Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe analog-help" in the main BODY OF THE MESSAGE. --------------------------------------------------------------------
