925716 - PDF opened with 'target="_blank"' downloads rather than displaying

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[Andrew Ducker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130814063812

Steps to reproduce:

Clicked on a link to a PDF with a target of _blank.


Actual results:

It opened the download window.


Expected results:

It should have displayed inside Firefox.

Comment 1

[Loic]

WFM with data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<a href%3D"http%3A%2F%2Fexcerpts.numilog.com%2Fbooks%2F2297001363.pdf" target%3D"_blank">Click<%2Fa>

URL or testcase, please?

NB: upgrade your Firefox to the latest v24, please.

Comment 2

[Andrew Ducker]

Turns out I'm wrong.  It's not the target that does it.  It's something else about some PDFs.

<A href="http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/webservices/content/pdf/003-4529626-5466299">This downloads</A> on a web page, for instance, always downloads the PDF rathet than displaying it inline.

Should I open a new bug for that?

Comment 3

[Mardeg]

This is expected behaviour, this server is sending the HTTP Header
Content-Disposition: attachment

Resolving this bug as WORKSFORME. There is already bug 453455 generally and bug 773942 specifically for PDFs open for overriding that header.

Meanwhile the extension at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/inlinedisposition/ as a workaround achieves this.

Comment 4

[Andrew Ducker]

Aaah, many thanks!