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De L.1
Collaborator | Level 9
9 years ago
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BUG: rendering PDF with ?raw=1 not showing in Chrome & Safari

To my surprise I noticed that it isn't possible to embed shared files anymore by using the ?raw=1 parameters as discussed in the Dropbox Help Center.   For instance, I am not able to see the follow...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    9 years ago
    We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly.

    Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.
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guilhermegarcia
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago
Update: everything works fine if I turn off my VPN. Not sure if that's what's supposed to happen: if people have a VPN they're not able to see raw=1 files...?
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

guilhermegarcia There's nothing about VPNs in general that should be affecting this. I just tried it, and raw=1 links are working properly for me in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, all both on and off a VPN. That being the case, it sounds like there may be something about your VPN connection in particular that is interfering unfortunately. 

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    guilhermegarcia
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    Thanks, Greg! I actually found out what the problem was: my VPN (NordVPN) has this thing called "CyberSec"—it's an additional security feature. If you don't deactivate it, raw=1 files won't render.

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