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.
I’m not sure I understand your issue. You’ve linked a PDF. Why wouldn’t Jerboa open a PDF as… you know… a PDF?
[They were not exaggerating] (https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/comment/21901413)
OMG LMFAO! That link doesn’t work on Jerboa either, all I get is a 500 error.
That link, minus the lemmyverse.link part should work, I think… https://lemmy.world/comment/21901413
Edit: Confirmed, Jerboa doesn’t like the lemmyverse.link form links either.
That is fascinating and if I was more paranoid I would say it’s also suspicious lol. I’m joking. I’m sure numatic and dessalines are overall more happy that so many tools have popped up over the past few years.
Edit: also, this totally reaffirms my decision to go through the effort to make it an instance agnostic link.
Yeah, I’m long past any Google paranoid suspicions, it’s gotta be within Jerboa and not necessarily recognizing the true document type before proceeding… 🤷
At least I figured out loosely what’s up and a workaround for now. Others suggest I just jump ship and start using a different Lemmy app, but I actually appreciate trying to help spot and report errors and glitches so other devs can improve their own projects, including Jerboa.
An unreported issue is an issue that might likely never get discovered or fixed…
It doesn’t start off as a PDF, it first links to an HTML page to ask if the reader is 18 or older. Only after that does it load the PDF.
Go ahead, download the file in the link above and try to open it. It’s not at first a PDF, it’s at first an HTML, but with PDF ‘extension’
The page has to be loaded via a web browser, not a PDF reader. But Jerboa is blindly loading the page as a PDF. When loaded via a PDF reader, all I get is ‘Invalid Format’
I just tried in Jerboa and it opened the page in an in app Firefox window.
Also this…
I’m not the only one, links from justice.gov aren’t working as expected via Jerboa…
https://piefed.social/c/asklinux/p/1733450/what-is-the-bash-reference-manual-doing-in-the-epstein-files
I’m making an educated guess that your setup must be already logged in and taking your data cookie to confirm you’re 18+…
I don’t really fully know though 🤷
This would be wrong. When I clicked the link I got an in-app firefox window asking for age verification.
Okay. Well please explain why Jerboa is trying to force the link into WPS Office, when it’s not the default app for anything to begin with?
WPS isn’t my default app for anything, Fennec is my default browser. But it appears to me that Jerboa just blindly sees PDF in the URL and automatically jumps to the last registered PDF specific app, without even asking the user what app to open the link with.
Have you checked WPS Office settings? Maybe there’s something there.
Yes I did, and WPS Office isn’t configured as default app for anything.
Note that today I’m gonna be on my phone for much of the day, my initial post was from my tablet, so my results and findings could possibly be different here, but I’ll duly note anything here and double check both on my phone and tablet once I get back home.