I have a servlet returning PDF stored as a large-object in a database. I was recently asked why "byte-serving" wasn't turned on and I'm at a loss to try to understand the situation. From what I've found/understood:
- byte-serving is the term Adobe uses when "chunks" of a PDF are returned by the server, each with a "byterange" header so that the PDF display program can start displaying immediately instead of having to wait for the entire file to be downloaded - AFAICT, Apache supported this automatically starting in 1.3.14 or so, and it seems implictly enabled in Apache 2.0 according to: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/developer/filters.html - it sounds like even if there was a way to convince mod_jk to support this, it wouldn't really work since you can't "stream" the response to the client from Tomcat via mod_jk via Apache - and since the entire PDF would be returned as part of a single SQL request, it doesn't provide any efficiency/performance gain for Tomcat or even Apache I'm running Tomcat 4.1 fronted by mod_jk 1.2.5-dev with Apache 2.0.46 So is there anything I'm missing? is there a way to implement short of serving the PDFs from disk directly by Apache? thanks, Adi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
