tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:/discussions/problems/1424-pdf-link-handling-stuffedTenFourFox: Discussion 2014-07-16T22:52:55Ztag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/337920712014-07-16T04:12:53Z2014-07-16T04:12:53Zpdf link handling stuffed<div><p>Although the behaviour is strange, I don't consider this a bug
per se. The file does download correctly, and if you give it a .pdf
extension, it works fine in Preview. The server is assuming that
the PDF will be loaded into a viewer plugin, and that's not what
TenFourFox does.</p>
<p>The actual problem is that the server generates URLs with the
;fileType=application_pdf appelation. If you remove that (starting
with the semicolon), then it "just works." While I understand your
frustration, their use of it does not follow any standard I know
of, and I am generally not willing to special-case the download
code for a non-standard situation.</p></div>Cameron Kaisertag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/337920712014-07-16T22:52:54Z2014-07-16T22:52:54Zpdf link handling stuffed<div><p>OK thanks,</p>
<p>I'll contact the web site manager and make an appeal for a
change at their end. As it's a government body I don't think it
will happen.</p>
<p>In the mists of time I recall being able to edit er MIME types?
or file types and what applications would handle them, I don't
recall the broswer.</p>
<p>If there is a config file I could edit for this special case I
could do it - I just haven't poked around to find it.</p>
<p>Thanks<br>
David</p></div>davididac