"The website hosting this PDF blocked the request."
What you are seeing
"The website hosting this PDF blocked the request."
#Why it happens
The file sits behind a login, a signed or expiring URL, a firewall or a bot manager. The proxy fetches from a server with none of the reader's cookies, so anything that depends on the reader's session fails.
#What to do
Download the file once and attach it to the page, then point the macro at the attachment.
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
Link rules enforced by the proxy | Https only; no bare IP addresses; no int | Http links are upgraded to https and then required to be https. Blocked outright: localhost, example.com/.org/.net, test.com, anything under amazonaws.com or amazon.com, nip.io, and the .corp .domain |
#Related
"This file does not look like a PDF."
The address returned something that is not a PDF (an HTML login or error page is the usual
"This PDF is password protected."
Password-protected documents are not supported and there is no place to enter a passphrase
Export and published sites
The rest of this family.
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