https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA01249734.pdf
This link drove me nuts last night, until I stopped tapping the link in Jerboa and instead copy/pasted the link directly into Fennec web browser.
If this bug has been resolved in a newer version of Jerboa, well just let me know and I’ll make a point to update later.
This is an issue with android file handling, not jerboa. You linked something that has a pdf uri, but isn’t actually a pdf.
Ok. When I copy and paste the link outside of Jerboa, it works just fine and exactly as expected.
But to tap the link here in Jerboa, it finds their HTML redirect shit to ask if I’m 18 or over, but since it’s not actually a PDF document, it errors out and says Invalid Format.
This is NOT an Android issue, this is indeed a Jerboa issue, as I can simply copy/paste the link into a web browser and it just works, as expected.
But tapping the link within Jerboa tries to force-feed an HTML age verification page through a PDF link, which apparently messes up the whole show…
I’m not the only one, links from justice.gov aren’t working as expected via Jerboa…
Go to android settings > default apps > opening links > and unclick wps office or whatever it’s opening in
No defaults even set, it’s Jerboa forcing that.
What about in Fennec. Does it have the “open links in apps” setting?
No. But I’m currently on my Android phone right now, a literal piece of shit compared to my tablet at home right now, so settings may differ. I’ll check the tablet later.
All I get in settings on my POS phone is ‘Browser App: Yes’ and ‘Install Unknown Apps: Allowed’, of course to sideload APKs…
Oh wait wait, you mean Fennec settings specifically…
Well shit, that setting does actually exist. My phone is set to Ask Each Time, pretty sure my tablet should be set the same, but I’ll have to check later when I get back home.
Thanks yet again for being helpful 👍
Were you able to confirm your tablet’s settings for Fennec?
Yes, Fennec on my tablet is configured the same way, to ask every time.
I dunno what’s up, but there’s apparently a borkup between the link handoff from Jerboa to Fennec… 🤷
Jerboa link taps never ask…
Oh that’s fun, Android 11 doesn’t even have a Default Apps menu…
It might be a little different. Try Settings-> Apps & Notifications -> Advanced -> Default apps
On my Android 11 devices, I don’t have any overall Default Apps menu, I get ‘Open By Default’ in the individual app settings on a per-app basis. So yeah that makes configuring apps extra fun ya know… /s
Either way, Fennec is configured as my default browser, and WPS Office isn’t configured for default anything. Hell, I don’t even use WPS Office, the app is just there as it came with my tablet.
Nope, it’s not even that. My browser (Fennec) is configured to ask every time what app to use, but Jerboa triggering my default browser apparently bypasses that altogether and I never get any option as to which app to load the link/document with.
Other apps don’t do this, other apps give me the option of which app to open stuff with. Jerboa however just blindly goes forward, assuming it sees a PDF, it must be a PDF…
Jerboa doesn’t handle PDF URIs directly. It only handles links related to Lemmy. It offloads that responsibility to your browser. It could have something to do with your android settings.
For more context, here is the file that has the functions that handles link opening in the github source code: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/blob/main/app/src/main/java/com/jerboa/Utils.kt
The functions of interest are openLink and openLinkRaw.
Nope, it’s not even that. My browser (Fennec) is configured to ask every time what app to use, but Jerboa triggering my default browser apparently bypasses that altogether and I never get any option as to which app to load the link/document with.
Other apps don’t do this, other apps give me the option of which app to open stuff with. Jerboa however just blindly goes forward, assuming it sees a PDF, it must be a PDF…
Sorry for the empty comment,
I don’t want to pry too much, but in jerboa, do you use private navigation by default?
Also, by other apps do you mean other lemmy frontends? Or just other apps on your phone? Maybe an example, especially if it’s open source, would help a lot.
Lastly, do you maybe have a step by step recreation of what happened? Screenshots and videos might give more context. You also mentioned the lemmy redirect service not working and giving you a 500 internal server error. Maybe more details could help out.
But then again, with this much information needed, i think a github issue should be opened. It doesn’t seem as obvious of an issue, even when looking in the code, so get ready to have to document this issue thouroughly. It would help a bunch.
Oh, your comment is definitely not an empty comment.
At first I tested tapping the link within Jerboa, no dice. I just got the Invalid Format error.
So, I decided to download the ‘document’ to my tablet, to investigate it. Turned out, it downloaded an HTML file with PDF extension.
In hindsight, it doesn’t inherently seem like a problem with Jerboa, more like a problem with the bait and switch link from justice.gov, swapping a PDF link with an HTML document. The HTML is a script to simply ask if you’re 18 years of age or older.
But the script doesn’t work when force-fed into a PDF reader, which my tablet isn’t even configured for, but Jerboa seems to be forcing it to open a PDF reader, without even giving me the option to open with another app.
Still, especially in the current times, I’m pretty sure that people would like access to these documents, without the file format mistranslation when tapping a link on the screen…
Jerboa seems to be so many kinds of broken and hasn’t released an update in months. It’s not looking good.
