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Reynold Joy259869475mmi
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September 6, 2022
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Adobe Acrobat Chrome Extension doing multiple calls

  • September 6, 2022
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We have an online application that is limiting the PDF download to only once.  We've found that users have been complaining of the attachment not being downloadable.  Further investigation showed that the issue is only happening when users are accessing their PDF via Chrome with the Adobe Acrobat Extension.  From what it looks like, the extension is doing multiple calls to the file thus resulting to the file not being accessible due to the limit.  Can you please check on this and see what can be done to mitigate such problems.  The only solution we ahve so far is to have users uninstall the extension and try to download their file again.

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    Kerry262244097yyz
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    October 20, 2025

    I am experiencing this as well. While regression testing a new build of an Azure hosted database, I am now unable to download PDF reports in Chrome when I have the Adobe Extension installed. If I remove the extension I can download the PDF report without issue. I can also download without any issues on Edge and FireFox. What I have been told by support is "When a report is run, it (the extension) downloads the pdf to the browser, then it (the extension) deletes the pdf from the netforum server (database I am testing), then the adobe add-on attempts to pull the file from the server again instead of the user's machine." I'm happy to provide a screen recording of the behavior if that would be helpful.  

    Meenakshi Negi
    Community Manager
    Meenakshi NegiCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    September 8, 2022

    Hi Reynold Joy259869475mmi,

     

    Thank you for reaching out.

     

    Please elaborate on the term "limiting the PDF download to only once". Do you mean that you cannot download multiple PDFs at once?

    Do you get any messages when trying to download the PDFs from that particular website?

    Is it a public website? If yes, please share the link with us to replicate the behavior.

    Please share the step-by-step workflow you use to download the PDF and the screen recording.

     

    Thanks,

    Meenakshi

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    Reynold Joy259869475mmiAuthor
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    September 8, 2022

    Hey Meenakshi,

     

    The application is limiting the download to only once, it's a security feature.   Unfortunately, it's a user-authenticated web application.

     

    What we've seen is that when the user clicks on the link to download, the new tab opens (as expected) but we then see that the tab opens the extension and the same link is passed as a parameter in the url, something like -> chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/{{url}}.  And yes, we have confirmed that this is only happening on Chrome when the extension is present.

     

    We are not sure how the extension or Chrome handles the PDF attachments, but it just recently caused issues.  What I'm theorizing is that something changed on how Chrome calls the extension where when it sees that the file downloaded is supported by the extension after accessing it, it then calls the extension to re-trigger the download via the extension.  Maybe what it was doing before is to download the file and then open it with the extension?  

     

    Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide.

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    anthony_7098
    Participant
    November 13, 2024

    Did anything ever come of this? We have the same issue and I see others online do as well

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