Acrobat byte ranges (was: Netscape /Squid2patch2 /mime ?)

>
> It seems that some browsers pass a partial file to the acrobat
> reader. This causes browser and machine lock ups.
>

Acrobat deliberately issues byte range requests to enable it to
display an initial screen without reading the whole file. There
should be no x- in the media type. Squid 2.0pl2 has
multipart/byteranges in the source, but not x-byteranges.

Conclusions: the server is broken.

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