On Thursday, December 02, 2004 6:28 PM [GMT],
Stilgherrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> 2)Am I right in assuming that the a.pdf and b.pdf files have been
>> accessed 217 and 156 times respectively (1 request per pdf page, 2
>> pdf pages per file)?
>
> No. Each request for a file is for the file, not for an individual
> page. You have no real way of finding out how much of each file a
> user read. Each PDF document is a single file, so no matter how many
> pages it has it's still a single request.

This is not true for .PDF files - Acrobat reader supports partial
downloads, so, if your web server is willing to cooperate, Acrobat will
send multiple requests for different parts of the file as you read
through it.

Aengus

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