[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#598709: Bug#598709: lighttpd: workaround for acrobat + msie pdf download bug

Fri Oct 1 11:07:48 UTC 2010

On 01/10/2010 12:56, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jeremy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
>> downloading a pdf served by lighttpd stalls when client is IE+acrobat.
> 
> For what versions of IE and Acrobat? 
> Sounds like this should be fixed in those two, not in Lighttpd.

Nice try :)

The bug has been around for 5 years or more, apache2 is providing a fix, too :
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/known_client_problems.html#byterange-requests

I reproduce the bug on winxp IE8 Adobe Reader 8.1.1