On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 08:45:15AM -0500, Dave Witzel 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?
That's a feature of 'modern' browsers: to make it easier for users to
make use of a PDF file, it breaks the requests into chunks. (It sucks
downloading 6M files and waiting forever to get them to display, so the
byte-range trick works to make pdf's useful).
The count from such things is no doubt high: you'd probably have to
total the bytes sent and use that as a sort of indicator. (Or use
something like mod_usertrack and follow it with cookies.)
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