Chrome has “Failed to load PDF document” error message on inline PDFs

Question

I have a problem with reading pdf file in Chrome by using PHP.

The following code is how I do in PHP

$path = \"actually file path\";
header(\"Pragma:         


        

Answer 1

i've fixed this way

$path = 'path to PDF file';
header("Content-Length: " . filesize ( $path ) ); 
header("Content-type: application/pdf"); 
header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=".basename($path));
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($path);

Answer 2

I've been wrestling with this same issue. This is as close as I got to consistent results across browsers. I think that the reason you could be having problems is if some PDF's are too large for readfile() to handle correctly. Try this:

$file = "path_to_file";
$fp = fopen($file, "r") ;

header("Cache-Control: maxage=1");
header("Pragma: public");
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=".$myFileName."");
header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header('Content-Length:' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
while (!feof($fp)) {
   $buff = fread($fp, 1024);
   print $buff;
}
exit;

Answer 3

I had similar issue but I noticed the order matters. Seems that ; filename= must have quotes around it, Content-Disposition: attachment Try this:

    $file = "/files/test.pdf";
    $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE); // return mime type ala mimetype extension
    $mime = finfo_file($finfo, $file);

    header('Pragma: public');
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Content-Type: $mime');
    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($file).'"'));
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
    header('Content-Length' . filesize($file));
    ob_clean();
    flush();
    readfile($file);

Answer 4

For me adding the following header fixed this annoying Chrome bug (?):

    header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK');

Answer 5

Had the same problem, chrome didn't display the inline PDF, stuck at loading. The solution was to add header('Accept-Ranges: bytes').

My complete code:

header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="'.$title.'"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($file));
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=0');