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KennelLink
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

How to show in-browser view of a file (i.e. jpg or PDF)

The URL from get_temporary_link() forces Firefox to initiate a download instead of an in-browser view of the file (which is what I want) and it is causing IE to just show a blank window. The create_sh...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago
The links returned by get_temporary_link aren't intended for being directly displayed in the browser unfortunately, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.

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