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This link initiates a download.

• rjbwork 5y ago
  It's a PDF. Firefox just displays it in the browser with no download prompt.
  • SquibblesRedux 5y ago
    I did some troubleshooting to see why the original link did not behave as expected. The original link: https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/raw/main/static/files/on-freenode.pdf redirects to here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freenode/web-7.0/main/static/files/on-freenode.pdf and this command: curl -v https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freenode/web-7.0/main/static/files/on-freenode.pdf 2>&1 | less reveals: content-type: application/octet-stream The application/octet-stream is for "Any kind of binary data," suggesting the correct browser behavior would be to download. To inform the browser that the document is a viewable PDF, a web server normally sends an application/pdf MIME type. [1] The "raw" in the original link is why GitHub thinks the file should be treated as a generic binary. While this may all seem much ado about nothing and pedantic, I often see this kind of behavior exploited in the wild to deliver malicious payloads. In this case I would say Firefox behaves "safer" than Chrome, but not not necessarily more correctly. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Common_types https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_...
    • Macha 5y ago
      If you want something to be downloaded, you need to declare Content-Disposition: attachment <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Disposition https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co...> Otherwise, the browser is perfectly ok to attempt to render it if it understands how to
  • adrianmonk 5y ago
    I guess it varies by browser since on Chrome there's a download (and a "file:///" URL in the tab).
• svnpenn 5y ago
  https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/blob/main/static/files/on-freenode.pdf https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/blob/main/static/files/o...
• deleted 5y ago
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