[Building Sakai] Loading PDFs in Chrome

[Juan Arcadio Martínez Cárceles]

Hi Matthew,

In Sakai, it fails when the PDF is bigger enough and the request get a 
"206 Partial Content" response.
I thought that it was a Google Chrome cache issue because of the success 
of disabling cache.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=437738



El 11/12/2014 17:36, Matthew Buckett escribió:
> We've recently started seeing a problem with Google Chrome not
> displaying PDFs correctly. The first time you load a PDF it will
> display correctly, if you then refresh the browser it will display an
> error saying "Failed to load PDF Document". I've uploaded an example
> to:
>
> https://qa10.longsight.com/access/content/public/Google.pdf
>
> which exhibits this problem. Uploading to a non Sakai webserver
> results in the file working correctly:
>
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~buckett/Google.pdf
>
> If you open developer tools and disable the cache then it loads
> correctly every time. I'm running Chrome 39 and it also happens on
> Chrome Canary 41. I found an old copy of Chrome 37 in a VM and
> everything works correctly there between reloads. My guess is that
> Chrome 38 was also OK, but I don't have a copy to test with.
>
> One difference between the two webservers is that the working one
> generates ETags which Chrome uses when it loads the page a second
> time. Anyone got any ideas?
>


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