Application Octet Stream File

5/27/2019
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commented Jun 7, 2018

This issue has originally been reported by @cebe at luyadev/luya-module-cms#85.
Moved here by @nadar.

I uploaded a PDF file for download. Linking to that file presents the dowload as Content-Type: application/octet-stream which causes the browser to be unable to show it as PDF and will only save the download. Ideally serving the file with the correct content type would allow directly opening it as PDF.

Given that Type: pdf is already shown in the admin backend I assume the information is already available for serving the correct mime type.

referenced this issue Jun 7, 2018

Closed

File download Content-Type is application/octet-stream #85

Application/octet-stream Filename

referenced this issue Jun 7, 2018

Merged

Fix MIME type and download counter on file download #149

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I am struggling to open an important pdf file I have on my ubuntu 12.04, which is probably created on MS Windows(assuming since it has some formatting issue). When I open the file using a PDF viewer it show me this error: File type unknown (application/octet-stream) is not supported

I tried to open it using console, too. Here is the output:

Can anybody help me with solving this issue and to fix this?

Thanks Surya

SuryaSurya

1 Answer

MIME type for a PDF on Ubuntu is application/pdf

but application/octet-stream (meaning any generic binary file) is a sort of catch all for files, and usually requires a file extension to determine what to open it with.

Download the PDF locally and save it as a PDF, making sure there is .pdf at the end.

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