topic [SOLVED]Webclient gives Login Form instead of PDF download in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-webclient-gives-login-form-instead-of-pdf-download/m-p/188334#M141464 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Greetings, fellow Alfresco fans, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I currently have a behaviour of the 2.9b webclient, that baffles me. When I try to view/download a pdf file from my site, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I get a HTML login form instead of the file content. It has worked before and I really do not know, what i did change. Do you have any ideas ? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When I access the same file via CIFS, all is fine. Other filetypes like TXT, DOC, etc. work fine both ways. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards, Norgan</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&lt;some title&gt;.pdf</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;body bgcolor="#ffffff" style="background-image: url(/alfresco/images/logo/AlfrescoFadedBG.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed"&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Alfresco Web Client - Login&lt;/title&gt;&lt;link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/alfresco/wcservice/api/search/keyword/description.xml" title="Alfresco Keyword Search"/&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;<BR />&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="/alfresco/css/main.css" TYPE="text/css"&gt;<BR />&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/menu.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/webdav.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/ajax/yahoo/yahoo/yahoo-min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/ajax/yahoo/connection/connection-min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/ajax/yahoo/event/event-min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/ajax/mootools.v1.11.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/ajax/common.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/alfresco/scripts/ajax/summary-info.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;setContextPath('/alfresco');&lt;/script&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;form id="loginForm" name="loginForm" method="post" action="/alfresco/faces/jsp/login.jsp;jsessionid=xxx" accept-charset="UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;table width=100% height=98% align=center&gt;<BR />&lt;tr width=100% align=center&gt;<BR />&lt;td valign=middle align=center width=100%&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0&gt;<BR />&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_01.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/white_02.gif'&gt;<BR />&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_02.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_03.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR />&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/white_04.gif'&gt;<BR />&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_04.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor='white'&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;table border=0 cellspacing=4 cellpadding=2&gt;<BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td colspan=2&gt;<BR />&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/logo/AlfrescoLogo200.png' width=200 height=58 alt="Alfresco" title="Alfresco"&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td colspan=2&gt;<BR />&lt;span class='mainSubTitle'&gt;Enter Login details:&lt;/span&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td&gt;<BR />User Name:<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;input id="loginForm:user-name" name="loginForm:user-name" type="text" value="" style="width:150px" /&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td&gt;<BR />Password:<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td&gt;<BR /><BR /><BR />&lt;input type="password" id="loginForm:user-password" name="loginForm:user-password" style="width:150px" /&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td&gt;<BR />Language:<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td&gt;<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />&lt;select id="loginForm:language" name="loginForm:language" size="1" style="width:150px" onchange="document.forms['loginForm'].submit(); return true;"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;option value="de_AMT"&gt;Ressort&lt;/option&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;option value="de_DE"&gt;Deutsch&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td colspan=2 align=right&gt;<BR />&lt;input id="loginForm:submit" name="loginForm:submit" type="submit" value="Login" onclick="if(typeof window.clearFormHiddenParams_loginForm!='undefined'){clearFormHiddenParams_loginForm('loginForm');}" /&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td colspan=2&gt;<BR /><BR /><BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR />&lt;/table&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/white_06.gif'&gt;<BR />&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_06.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<BR />&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_07.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/white_08.gif'&gt;<BR />&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_08.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/white_09.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<BR />&lt;/table&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;div id="no-cookies" style="display:none"&gt;<BR />&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="padding-top:16px;"&gt;<BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td&gt;<BR />&lt;table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0 width=100%&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_01.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_02.gif'&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_02.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_03.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_04.gif'&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_04.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor='#ffffcc'&gt;<BR />&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"&gt;<BR />&lt;tr&gt;<BR />&lt;td valign=top style="padding-top:2px" width=20&gt;&lt;img src="/alfresco/images/icons/info_icon.gif;jsessionid=xxx" height="16" width="16" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;td class="mainSubText"&gt;<BR />Cookies must be enabled in your browser for the Alfresco Web-Client to function correctly.<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR />&lt;/table&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_06.gif'&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_06.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_07.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td background='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_08.gif'&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_08.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width=7&gt;&lt;img src='/alfresco/images/parts/yellowInner_09.gif' width=7 height=7 alt=''&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;<BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR />&lt;/table&gt;<BR />&lt;/div&gt;<BR />&lt;script&gt;<BR />document.cookie="_alfTest"<BR />var cookieEnabled = (document.cookie.indexOf("_alfTest") != -1);<BR />if (cookieEnabled == false)<BR />{<BR />document.getElementById("no-cookies").style.display = 'inline';<BR />}<BR />&lt;/script&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;/td&gt;<BR />&lt;/tr&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;/table&gt;<BR /><BR />&lt;input type="hidden" name="loginForm_SUBMIT" value="1" /&gt;&lt;input type="hidden" name="loginForm:_idcl" /&gt;&lt;input type="hidden" name="loginForm:_link_hidden_" /&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;!–<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;function clear_loginForm()<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;clearFormHiddenParams_loginForm('loginForm');<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;function clearFormHiddenParams_loginForm(currFormName)<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var f = document.forms['loginForm'];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;f.elements['loginForm:_idcl'].value='';<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;f.elements['loginForm:_link_hidden_'].value='';<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;f.target='';<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;clearFormHiddenParams_loginForm();<BR />//–&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;input type="hidden" name="javax.faces.ViewState" id="javax.faces.ViewState" value="rO0ABXVyABNbTGphdmEubGFuZy5PYmplY3Q7kM5YnxBzKWwCAAB4cAAAAAN0AAExcHQADi9qc3AvbG9naW4uanNw" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;<BR /><BR /><BR />&lt;script&gt;<BR /><BR />if (document.getElementById("loginForm:user-name").value.length == 0)<BR />{<BR />document.getElementById("loginForm:user-name").focus();<BR />}<BR />else<BR />{<BR />document.getElementById("loginForm:user-password").focus();<BR />}<BR /><BR />&lt;/script&gt;<BR /><BR /><BR />&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;<BR /><BR 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Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:33:30 GMT norgan 2008-09-09T19:33:30Z [SOLVED]Webclient gives Login Form instead of PDF download https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-webclient-gives-login-form-instead-of-pdf-download/m-p/188334#M141464 Greetings, fellow Alfresco fans, I currently have a behaviour of the 2.9b webclient, that baffles me. When I try to view/download a pdf file from my site, I get a HTML login form instead of the file content. It has worked before and I really do not know, what i did change. Do you have any ideas ? Wh Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:33:30 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-webclient-gives-login-form-instead-of-pdf-download/m-p/188334#M141464 norgan 2008-09-09T19:33:30Z Re: [SOLVED]Webclient gives Login Form instead of PDF download https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-webclient-gives-login-form-instead-of-pdf-download/m-p/188335#M141465 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Folks, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>the problem disappeared. This morning, all was fine again. Beats me <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards, Norgan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:34:43 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-webclient-gives-login-form-instead-of-pdf-download/m-p/188335#M141465 norgan 2008-09-10T09:34:43Z Re: [SOLVED]Webclient gives Login Form instead of PDF download https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-webclient-gives-login-form-instead-of-pdf-download/m-p/188336#M141466 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thats it : I use a firefox plugin "PDF Download" which looses the authentification data from time to time.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thus, alfresco transfers an login form and the plugin stores that as PDF content.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:38:58 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/solved-webclient-gives-login-form-instead-of-pdf-download/m-p/188336#M141466 norgan 2008-10-08T14:38:58Z