Re: [users@httpd] MSN-Bot doesn't finish a download?

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On 5/2/05, Abu Hurayrah <abu_hurayrah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greets to all!
> 
> I've just noticed that when the MSNbot crawls my website and hits some of my
> downloads, it doesn't download the whole file.

Most search engines are only interested in the first x bytes of the
file, so the bot may simply be dropping the connection after it gets
what it want.s

> MSN seems to only catch ONE chunk, no matter what size I make it, which I
> find very strange, because I cannot think of why my implementation would
> matter to MSN or not.

What is the smallest "chunk" size you have tried?  You are probably
just not detecting the dropped connection until you have sent a chunk,
so you don't really knwo what the bot is accepting.

Joshua.

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