I am using the pound proxy server on Red Hat 9.2 to route requests to a 
number of web sites on three servers in our network.  This has been 
running for some time without any issues.  However, I recently went to 
download a large file with Internet Explorer and ie only got a small 
chunk of the file.  I suspect that this had never worked and noone had 
needed to do it until now.  I had added a directive for Client 1 to the 
config file to address an problem with IE and its limited number of 
connections.  If I increase this directive or remove it altogether, the 
file will download correctly but our flash remoting slows down 
significantly under IE.   If I keep it at a low value, the flash is ok  
but I cannot download the file.

Does anyone know if there is a remedy for this situation?  Has anyone 
seen this before?

Thanks in advance

/Steve[...]

Steve,

I had a similar problem with PDF files -- well, any large file, really, 
but mostly PDFs.

The files were not pulled directly from some path along the web root, 
but were served instead from a content management system that would 
fetch the file from an off-web file store, and spit it out to the 
browser with the correct MIME type.

I saw vast improvement once I made sure to include the content-length 
directive (with the correct length, of course) in the response header 
when sending the file back to the client.  My Client directive is 
currently set to 90, and my Server to 500.  Extreme values, but 
everything's been running smoothly for me for quite some time now, and I 
hate to even try adjusting it further.

Ed

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