292888 - Blank page loaded if attempt to load a PDF dynamically via a script

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[dfrancis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0.3

This did not occur in the previous build (prior to 1.0.3).  With the new build,
scripts I use to dynamically upload a PDF file by defining the Content-Type and
then feeding the page data into the browser now simply result in a blank page. 
I have tested it on the previous build as well as many other browsers and do not
experience this bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Find a page that will dynmically load a PDF into your browser
2.  Click the link and see a blank page
3.

Actual Results:  
Although it seems to initialize the plug in, the document itself never appears.

Expected Results:  
The plugin should have been triggered and the document should load.

Comment 1

[daneel]

An example of this is here:

http://ebriefing.bgfl.org/bcc_ebrief/?p=resources,view_resource&id=1424

Coldfusion attempts to serve a PDF file, but has the "CFM" extension.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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