* Thus wrote John Herren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If I call a pdf file directly, the Acrobat plugin begins to display the > file almost immediately. Here is the reponse header for calling the file > directly:
> Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:08:17 GMT > ETag: "94174-341fcb-3f8ed081" > Content-Length: 3416011 I forgot to also mention this: I'd put a high wager that the pdf has been cached and is being loaded from the cache instead. > > I wrote a pdf-serving script for anti-leech purposes, and it works fine, > except that the acrobat plugin waits for the entire file to come down > the pipe before anything is displayed. The mystery for me is that the > headers--the important ones anyway--look exactly the same. Dig: > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:44:45 GMT > Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 > OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.3.3 mod_perl/1.26 > X-Meta-MSSmartTagsPreventParsing: TRUE > X-MSSmartTagsPreventParsing: TRUE > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3 > X-Accelerated-By: PHPA/1.3.3r2 > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 3416011 > Connection: close > Content-Type: application/pdf Notice no Etag, last-modified. There is no way IE or any browser can cache this document, it is going to request it all the time. Curt -- "My PHP key is worn out" PHP List stats since 1997: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/mlists/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php