Downloading Text file over http

Hi,
I am trying to display some plain text files over http to the client using a web browser. Everything works fine till the time the file size is small, but for the files of over 1MB the frontend just dies. Probably the display happens only after the complete transfer of the file.
Does any one have the solution by which the text files can also be downloaded similar to the html files i.e. incrementaly. I have the code of transferring the html file over http as it happens in the explorer. But the same does not seem to work on the plain text files.
Please help
Sachin

I do not have any Remote server written for this. What i am doing is, the directory in which the files are stored is exposed as a virtual directory through a web server(Apache) and then from client i am just placing a http request to open this file.
So what i can do under this situations to handle the large files.

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