PDF set to download doesn't

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Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I’ve seen this question posted before, but nothing seems to work for me.

I have a link on a website that is supposed to force a download of a PDF. It has been working for years. Now all of a sudden it won’t. Well, it downloads about 29k of a 454k file. So it basically leaves the file useless.

The only thing that is different is that I uploaded the new version of the PDF for this year. The PDF opens fine if I FTP in and download it. Just not when downloaded off the site.

Can someone check out the site and see if they get the same results?

https://mshof.com/induction/nomination/

I’ve tried using the HTML5 tag “download=filename.pdf” and I’ve used htaccess to force any pdf file to download. I’ve been using both methods for years and they’ve been fine.

Thanks,
Paul

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Downloads just fine for me. But the resulting file, when I open, says it is corrupted. See screenshot.

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Right. It downloads on about 29k of the full 454k file. Not sure why.

Guess I’ll need to dig around more.

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Why not zip the file, upload, place a link to the Zip. See what happens. If that also results in a corrupt file then you know the file is corrupated somehow. If not, I have no idea what the explanation is but at least you could us the zipped approach to auto-downloading.

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Actually, I have done that. But it only downloads about 3k of the zip file so you get the same results.

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Ok, so after not working for 2 days, it has now started working again.

Haven’t done a thing so I guess I’ll just have to blame it on the host (its the easiest thing to tell the customer).

Thanks

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Normally…depending on browser…you should compress it first and link to the .zip file

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It opened in my browser 2 page nomination form

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Yes, it has now started working again.

I blame it on the host since I haven’t done anything.

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Had to double take there. First time I’ve read a form with “Date of Death” as one of the entries.

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