Lighttpd

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server.range-requests option ============================

server.range-requests

defines if range requests are allowed or not.

range request are requests of one or more sub-ranges of a file. Range requests are very helpful for interrupted downloads and fetching small portions of huge files.

Default: enabled

IE can crash when it tries to open a pdf file. 
    This setting in the config fixes it: ::

$HTTP[url] =~ "\.pdf$" { 
           server.range-requests = "disable" 
       }

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