# How to disable HTTP stream

Disabling the HTTP stream can greatly improve the conversion speeds for documents that link to a lot of external resources (for example images and CSS files from old newsletter emails).

A grey image placeholder will be displayed in the place of the external image.

To disable the HTTP stream navigate to **Settings > PDF settings** in your Seascape database and open the settings configuration document you are using for PDF conversions:

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Now change the **Enable HTTP Stream** option to **No** and save your settings:

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{% hint style="info" %}
If you don't want to completely disable the HTTP stream it is also possible to set a timeout by setting the **HTTP timeout** option on the **General** tab to desired number of seconds (greater than zero).
{% endhint %}


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