https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA01249734.pdf

This link drove me nuts last night, until I stopped tapping the link in Jerboa and instead copy/pasted the link directly into Fennec web browser.

If this bug has been resolved in a newer version of Jerboa, well just let me know and I’ll make a point to update later.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Oh, your comment is definitely not an empty comment.

    At first I tested tapping the link within Jerboa, no dice. I just got the Invalid Format error.

    So, I decided to download the ‘document’ to my tablet, to investigate it. Turned out, it downloaded an HTML file with PDF extension.

    In hindsight, it doesn’t inherently seem like a problem with Jerboa, more like a problem with the bait and switch link from justice.gov, swapping a PDF link with an HTML document. The HTML is a script to simply ask if you’re 18 years of age or older.

    But the script doesn’t work when force-fed into a PDF reader, which my tablet isn’t even configured for, but Jerboa seems to be forcing it to open a PDF reader, without even giving me the option to open with another app.

    Still, especially in the current times, I’m pretty sure that people would like access to these documents, without the file format mistranslation when tapping a link on the screen…