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aprilafternoon
6 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Share links don't work on Android
For a while now, I've been sharing Dropbox documents in PDF format via email. Once in a while people tell me they "can't open the links." I always just assumed they didn't know what they were doing, ...
- 6 years agoHi virtue, in general, this error message seems to be a generic error message related to a third party app.For this reason, I’d recommend attempting to opening the link with a mobile browser and, if you’re still having issues, you can always contact our Support team for a more in-depth look on the matter using our internal tools.Thanks in advance!This thread is closed due to inactivity. Please feel free to create a new topic here.
Здравко
6 years agoLegendary | Level 20
Hi aprilafternoon,
The message is absolutely normal. The link point to JPEG file, erroneous renamed to .pdf. Of cource, android try to redirect to activity serving PDF, but the same activity seems doesn't know anything about JPEG. Check Your file format and/or set apropriate name extension. :upside_down:
- aprilafternoon6 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Unfortunately, that's not the case... the file in question is a valid PDF file and I can view it properly from iOS devices... just not Android. :wink:
- Здравко6 years agoLegendary | Level 20
Hi aprilafternoon,
As response to link Your posted initialy (https://www.dropbox.com/s/o8fpocz6tykra0o/20190204.pdf?dl=0) in part of the content (no to direct link) headers reported are:
accept-ranges: bytes cache-control: public, max-age=31536000, no-transform content-disposition: inline; filename="AA-iJSzD.jpe…ilename*=UTF-8''AA-iJSzD.jpeg content-length: 232494 content-security-policy: referrer no-referrer content-type: image/jpeg date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 01:25:27 GMT referrer-policy: no-referrer server: nginx timing-allow-origin: * vary: Origin x-content-type-options: nosniff x-dropbox-request-id: a80463e96954cc0b61e152b987784782 X-Firefox-Spdy: h2 x-robots-tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex x-server-response-time: 171
all together (at least, when I clicked the link provided). Note especially the line:
content-type: image/jpeg
I will left this byself without comments.
Something more: Even on a same OS different activities can have different capabilities (What to say on different devices and/or OS-es). So, some activities can serve more types, others - no. That's it.
- Здравко6 years agoLegendary | Level 20
Of course, this could be bad redirection to https://uce90e38fa32e1b7b14345c2a3a2.previews.dropboxusercontent.com/p/thumb/AAULjtCnhlyMjiewZ4Hm5JrqefroBT7owwI9hpPBjyp9-4V_qn8pJf7SHLafzcTGndTTbvGXc9AfxzJnqo3oihFbWT9kgKjUkD80-Twe1YETOtp2TzjNVnxsfWZgelgdm2NJZs4N4K4kJTObFqWHMD5rBfymqBIP_m7KxWRFneScmSA2PMsekHy9faOAI5gS11VsQh9I4EpZ-SujdzZlqcECuBddFQDNQgTmXrptexC9AnMSHPfApZWjXtRdro9JSu0I6lWrYWYH9smUAA-iJSzD/p.jpeg?size=800x600&size_mode=3
If so, I can't say anything more.
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