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Kai ZHAO
Kai ZHAO

Reputation: 3296

click pdf link in web, how to preview instead of download?

I have my resume linked in my home page.

But I found when I host the pdf file on two different storage server, the default behavior when click on the link differs: one directly download the pdf file bug the other preview in a new tab.

the two links are as below:

http://data-10045577.file.myqcloud.com/doc/Zhao.Kai_ShanghaiUniv.pdf

http://7xocv2.dl1.z0.glb.clouddn.com/doc/Zhao.Kai_ShanghaiUniv.pdf

I have tested on firefox chrome IE that this is not a browser issue.

For some price issue I have to switch to the storage server of which the default behavior is downloading pdf file.

what settings should I have so that click the pdf link then preview instead of downlod?

Additionally, the storage server provide a configure option that can set the "http header", I know little about the web, so can setting a header work, if so, how to ?

I googled it and it seems the content-disposition argument in http header account for this. But I add content-disposition='inline', doesn't help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 452

Answers (2)

Dave Lee
Dave Lee

Reputation: 524

When you upload your files to the server for the first time, headers should properly set up to 'application/pdf'. Otherwise the browser will download it automatically.

Upvotes: -1

monterico
monterico

Reputation: 380

if not the browser's issue, then the download one is added programmatically with headers, and the preview one is just putting your file in that folder on the server

Upvotes: 1

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