View the PDF at publish.obsidian.md/vault on desktop and mobile.
Actual result
Works fine on desktop and used to work fine on mobile too. But in the last 2 weeks or so, every published PDF shows “blocked by server” on mobile. (Markdown notes are fine.)
Environment
Operating system: Chrome on Android
Obsidian version: 0.12.12
Additional information
I’ve tried this on various phones (all Chrome on Android) and various networks.
Hi again. This seems to have worsened? Published PDFs now no longer appear on Chrome desktop or mobile, even in the sidebar. I can see that they’re published okay from Obsidian. It’s just that they’re now not even evident in the web browser.
Maybe you’re right about published PDFs never did show in the sidebar (and if that’s the intended behaviour then that’s fine). But here are screenshots of my problem.
First, my note, which contains two links to PDFs within the vault:
I’ve tried this on three different Android phones across two different networks, all with the same result. I’ve tried clearing browsing data too. It used to work, over a month ago now.
I’m in Scotland, UK, if that has any baring on the server.
Same issue for me. Is there a plan to address this?
Is there a workaround? I’d probably be happy if users could download the pdf, although displaying it would of course be even better.
Thanks, jb
I am also having this issue. Tried with Chrome, Samsung Internet, and Firefox on both a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7+. None of them embed the PDF in the page properly, although as soon as the page is loaded in Firefox, a prompt appears asking if the user wants to download the PDF.
I would greatly appreciate if this was fixed.
In the meantime, does anyone have a workaround to display the PDF embedded in the page on mobile browsers without an explicit download?