External links in PDF that is rendered in Chromes internal PDF viewer do not work
Reported by
stephen....@gmail.com,
Aug 25 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Create a PDF with an external hyperlink in it. e.g. "/foo/bar.html" 2. Deploy that PDF file to a server e.g. "https://example.com/baz/file.pdf" 3. Navigate to that PDF file in the browser 4. Attempt to click on that link, which should navigate you to: "https://example.com/foo/bar.html" (since it is a relative link) 5. Notice no navigation occurs What is the expected behavior? Navigation to the specified external link (relative or absolute) What went wrong? No navigation at all Did this work before? N/A Does this work in other browsers? Yes Chrome version: 60.0.3112.101 Channel: n/a OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) Flash Version: Note that just disabling the internal PDF viewer is not an option to fix relative links (its fine for absolute), as when the default app takes it (e.g. Adobe Reader) then it is loading the file from temp files or a save location (e.g. desktop) and thus the relative path won't work. It works fine in IE/Firefox.
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Aug 25 2017
Can you attach a test PDF to help demonstrate the issue?
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Aug 25 2017
Will do, I just need to generate a simple one.
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Aug 25 2017
A simple one is fine. Thanks for taking the time to file the bug and work on the example.
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Aug 26 2017
I've uploaded a simple attachment, and I've also hosted an exact copy of the attachment at this location: https://cdn.glitch.com/9ad89ffe-eaff-4ff3-b1e5-4efe562c7c1a%2FsampleHyperlinkDoc.pdf?1503773768068 The absolute link will work, but the relative link won't work as there is no valid URL at the location it points to, but I didn't have another public host to put the file on. Feel free to host the attached file somewhere better.
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Aug 26 2017
Hmm, after uploading the file to the Glitch domain it does seem to recognize the external link fine. (This PDF was generated directly from MS Word). I wonder if there are multiple ways to define hyperlinks and some work, and some don't? I will have to get another sample as generated from another source.
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Aug 26 2017
Grr, Word borked my relative link PDF... this version is correct.
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Aug 26 2017
Oh, and here is the new file, uploaded to Glitch.com https://cdn.glitch.com/9ad89ffe-eaff-4ff3-b1e5-4efe562c7c1a%2FsampleHyperlinkDoc.pdf?1503774913520 The relative link will "work" now in say Firefox... though the location it maps to is a 404. Both absolute and relative links appear to work in Chrome... with this file. Thus I'm lead to believe that the other tools being used to generate PDFs either generate a different type of link (I'm not too familiar with the internals of PDFs) or there is something else a miss. I will need to try generating a small repro PDF from the tools that we know cause this bug.
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Aug 28 2017
If I'm understanding comment #8 this is working correctly in Chrome? If that isn't the case, please attach a PDF file which shows the issue. |
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Comment 1 by manoranj...@chromium.org
, Aug 25 2017Labels: Needs-Triage-M60