KB161450 - Not All Bytes Returned Using Adobe Acrobat with IIS 2.0

Article ID: 161450

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

Microsoft Internet Information Server 2.0

This article was previously published under Q161450

We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

SYMPTOMS

Some Adobe Acrobat .pdf files will fail to display when you use Internet Information Server 2.0.

CAUSE

Internet Information Server 2.0 does not correctly serve multiple byte ranges.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem with Microsoft Internet Information Server version 2.0. This problem was corrected in Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

MORE INFORMATION

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