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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

The proper way is to send the PDF, with the correct mime, and let the browser deal with it any way it decides to.

The stupid way for a site to act is to tell the browser to download the file instead of displaying it. And the stupid way for a browser to act is to do whatever the site tells it to do instead of what they user wants. The OP seems to have picked a stupid pair of tools.

this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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