[support] Bizarre behavior with uploaded PDF files

[Chuck D'Antonio]

Bob,

I'm too paranoid to click your links with the current PDF exploits that are
in the wild (no offense), but it sounds like one of three things to me:

   1. Your web server may not have the proper file type information for the
   PDF file type (in other words, the file mime.types in your web server
   configuration doesn't have the mapping "application/pdf     pdf" in it).
   2. The files don't all have a PDF extension on them.
   3. Your brower somehow lost either the mapping of application/pdf to
   Acrobat or the mapping of the .pdf extension to Acrobat.

Chuck

 <http://acquia.com> *Chuck D'Antonio*
Sr. Director Professional Services
Acquia - www.acquia.com
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Bob Smither <Smither at c-c-i.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a D5 site with a page of uploaded PDF files.  The files are
> listed Drupal style on the page (http://lrcf.org/Spotlight).  Up until
> recently when I double clicked a page the pdf would open in acroread as
> expected.
>
> Recently double clicking a linked pdf results in one of three results:
>
> 1.  Displays as expected (example - the January 2010 issue)
>
> 2.  Firefox window opens offering to save the pdf file (it is not opened
> as expected) (example - December 2009 issue).
>
> 3.  Firefox window opens stating Download Error:
> "/tmp/Spotlight-2009-11-3.pdf could not be opened, because the
> associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in
> your preferences." (example - November 2009 issue).
>
> I am viewing all this on Firefox from an updated CentOS 5 Linux box.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?  All of the files
> appear to be normal pdf files and open as expected when they are local
> files.
>
> Thanks!
>
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