PDF hosted on S3 not rendering in FireFox
I was having a problem with a PDF document showing up in the browser. The PDF was on an Amazon S3 server and it was called from an HTML file. When I clicked on the link, the browser was blank. The URL looked correct.
I checked that the permissions were correctly set for the PDF file on S3. They were.
I was using FireFox 4 on Win7, so I tried other browsers. IE 6, 7, 8, and Chrome all rendered the PDF correctly.
I opened the PDF in FireFox directly from my computer and it opened fine.
I uploaded the PDF to my person al site and it displayed properly in FireFox 4.
I read a few blogs that talked about the Metadata and setting the “Content-Type” in the Amazon Web Services Console. So I went there and I checked the PDF and it was already set to “application/pdf”.
After spinning my wheels a while longer I checked some of the other values in the “Content-Type” drop-down and did not see any other settings that would apply. So I set it back to “application/pdf” and for the hell of it, I hit “save”. Well that did it. The PDF now showed up?????
