Why do android pdf downloads not work

Found my own answer and it was so much simpler than where I was looking. My page with the download link is in an iframe. Something in the Android default browser loses your download if it occurs in an iframe. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey.

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I'm guessing that Android default browser requires the content-disposition or doesn't like Gzip on the download, but I'm just guessing Update I removed our action filter that was implementing Gzip compression and I added in the Content-Disposition attachment header.

Improve this question. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Michael Levy Michael Levy I have the same problem. The stock android browser and the Dolphin browser fail to download. No problem in other browsers. I've tried all the suggestions you linked too.

To do this you simply have to locate the downloaded file from the file manager, select it and, in the app options, select with which application you want to open it. However, the solution to all your problems is in the Adobe Acrobat Reader app, the program par excellence for viewing PDFs on any computer. If you have the app installed on your mobile and you still cannot open the PDF, the first thing of all is to update the app to the latest version and, if the failure persists, download the file again because, along the way, it has been damaged.

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