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We don't need no steenking byte serving :-) (Score:2)

by grantm (164)

Each PDF has unique contents. Even if the same person downloads multiple times, each document will contain (amongst other things) a unique serial number. So we have gone to some lengths to make clients aware that byte serving is not an option.

But the cause of the problem is clearly an issue with mod_ssl's timeout handling. If the downloads complete before the timeout there are no segfaults. If we don't use SSL there are no segfaults. Slow downloads + SSL = segfaults.
- Re:We don't need no steenking byte serving :-) (Score:2)
  
  by geoff (2013) <reversethis-{gro ... om} {ta} {ffoeg}> on 2005.09.08 10:31 (#43149) Homepage Journal
  
  well, byteserving doesn't necessarily have anything to do with unique content - PDF plugins will try to request parts of large documents as you scroll through them. so, the reason I was mentioning it is that if slow downloads are causing problems you can avoid that in part by properly byteserving. if uniqueness is your issue, that ought to be handled by proper cache headers.
  
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