Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application zip

Question

With Chrome 12 0 742 112  if I redirect with the following headers   HTTP 1 1 302 Found  Location  http   0 0 0 0 3000 files download zip Content-Type  text html  charset utf-8 Cache-Control  no-cache X-Ua-Compatible  IE Edge X-Runtime  0 157964 Content-Length  0 Server  WEBrick 1 3 1  Ruby 1 9 2 2011-02-18  Date  Tue  05 Jul 2011 18 42 25 GMT Connection  Keep-Alive   Which if followed returns the following header   HTTP 1 1 200 OK  Last-Modified  Tue  05 Jul 2011 18 18 30 GMT Content-Type  application zip Content-Length  150014 Server  WEBrick 1 3 1  Ruby 1 9 2 2011-02-18  Date  Tue  05 Jul 2011 18 44 47 GMT Connection  Keep-Alive   Chrome will not redirect  nor change the previous page  it ll just report the following warning in the console      Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application zip    The process works correctly in Firefox  and also works fine in Chrome if I open a new tab and go directly to http   0 0 0 0 3000 files download zip  Am I doing something wrong  or is this a bug quirk of Chrome

User · Answer

I had this issue in an ASP web site project   Adding a  Content-Length  header caused downloads to start working again in Chrome

User · Answer

You can specify the HTML5 download attribute in your  lt a gt  tag    lt a href  http   example com archive zip  download gt Export lt  a gt    https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web HTML Element a attr-download

User · Answer

The problem I literally quote Saeed Neamati  https   stackoverflow com a 6587434 760777    In your request header  you have sent Content-Type  text html which means that you d like to interpret the response as HTML  Now if even server send you PDF files  your browser tries to understand it as HTML   The solution Send the bloody correct header  Send the correct mime type of the file  Period  How  Aaah  That totally depends on what you are doing  OS  language   My problem was with a dynamically created download link in javascript  The link is for downloading an mp3 file  An mp3 file is not a document  neither is a pdf  a zip file  a flac file and the list goes on  So I created the link like this   x000D   x000D   lt form method  get  action  test mp3  gt      lt a href     onclick  this closest form  submit   return false   target   blank  gt       lt span class  material-icons  gt        download      lt  span gt     lt  a gt   lt  form gt  x000D   x000D   x000D   and I changed it to this   x000D   x000D   lt form method  get  action  test mp3  enctype  multipart form-data  gt      lt a href     onclick  this closest form  submit   return false   target   blank  gt       lt span class  material-icons  gt        download      lt  span gt     lt  a gt   lt  form gt  x000D   x000D   x000D   Problem solved  Adding an extra attribute to the form tag solved it  But there is no generic solution  There are many different scenario s  When you send a file from the server  you created it dynamically with a language like CX   Java  PHP   you have to send the correct header s  with it  Side note  And be careful not to send anything  text   before you send your header s

User · Answer

I could not find anywhere just an explanation of the message by itself  Here is my interpretation   As far as I understand  Chrome was expecting some material it could possibly display  a document   but it obtained something it could not display  or something it was told not to display    This is both a question of how the document was declared at the HTML page level in href  see the download attribute in Roy s message  and how it is declared within the server s answer by the means of HTTP headers  in particular Content-Disposition   This is a question of contract  as opposed to hope and expectation   To continue on Evan s way  I ve experienced that   Content-type  application pdf Content-disposition  attachment  filename some pdf   is just inconsistent with    lt a href  some pdf  gt    Chrome will cry Resource interpreted as document but transferred     Actually  the attachment disposition just means this  the browser shall not interpret the link  but rather store it somewhere for other   hidden   purposes  Here above  either download is missing beside href  or Content-disposition must be removed from the headers  It depends on whether we want the browser to render the document or not   Hope this helps

User · Answer

I ve fixed this   by simply opening a new tab   Why it wasn t working I m not entirely sure  but it could have something to do with how Chrome deals with multiple downloads on a page  perhaps it thought they were spam and just ignored them

User · Answer

Just ran into this and none of the other information I could find helped  it was a stupid error  I was sending output to the browser before starting the file download  Surprisingly  I found no helpful errors found  like  headers already sent  etc    Hopefully  this saves someone else some grief

User · Answer

I got this error because I was serving from my file system  Once I started with a http server chrome could figure it out

User · Answer

This issue was re-appeared at Chrome 61 version  But it seems it is fixed at Chrome 62   I have a RewriteRule like below  RewriteRule   ShowGuide    https    lt website gt  help pdf  L NC R QSA    With Chrome 61  the PDF was not opening  in console it was showing the message    Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application pdf      We tried to add mime type in the rewrite rule as below but it didn t help   RewriteRule   ShowGuide    https    lt website gt  help pdf  L NC R QSA  t application pdf    I have updated my Chrome to latest 62 version and it started to showing the PDF again  But the message is still there in the console   With all other browsers  it was is working fine

User · Answer

In my case the file name was too long  and got the same error  Once shortened below 200 chars worked fine   limit might be 250

User · Answer

I encountered this when I assigned src  image url  in an iframe  It seems that iframe interprets it as a document but it is not  That s why it displays a warning

User · Answer

I solved the problem by adding target   blank  to the link  With this  chrome opens a new tab and loads the PDF without warning even in responsive mode

User · Answer

I was experiencing the same trouble with a download manager I created  The problem I was having involved the file name being too long and the extension being clipped off   Example   File Name   Organizational Protocols and Other Things That are Important pd   lt  php   header  Content-Disposition  attachment  filename  File Name      gt    Solution  Increased the MySQL database field to 255 to store the file name  and performed a length check before saving the blob  If the length   255 trim it down to 250 and add the file extension

User · Answer

I got the same error  the solution was to put the attribute target    quot   blank quot   Finally    lt a href  quot  uploads file   quot  target  quot  blank quot  gt Download lt  a gt   Where   is the extension of your file to download

User · Answer

I experienced this problem when serving up a PDF file  MIME type application pdf  and solved it by setting the Content-Disposition header  e g    Content-Disposition  attachment  filename foo pdf   Hope that helps

User · Answer

I had a similar issue when performing a file download through Javascript  Adding the download attribute made no difference but adding target   blank  did - I no longer get the  Resource interpreted as Document     console message   Here s my nicely simple code   var link   document createElement  a    link target     blank   link href   url  document body appendChild link      Required for Firefox link click    link remove       I haven t tried it with direct HTML but would expect it to work   Note I discovered that Firefox requires the link to be appended to the document whereas Chrome will work without it

User · Answer

Try below code and I hope this will work for you   var Interval   setInterval function                      if  ReportViewer                        ReportViewer prototype PrintReport   function                              switch  this defaultPrintFormat                                case  Default                                   this DefaultPrint                                    break                              case  PDF                                   this PrintAs  PDF                                    previewFrame   document getElementById this previewFrameID                                   previewFrame onload   function      previewFrame contentDocument execCommand  print   true  null                                     break                                                                       clearInterval Interval                                    1000

User · Answer

I encountered this same issue today with Chrome Version 30 0 1599 66 with my node js   express js application   The headers are correct  express sets them properly automatically  it works in other browsers as indicated  putting html 5  download  attribute does not resolve  what did resolve it is going into the chrome advanced settings and checking the box  Ask where to save each file before downloading    After that there was no  Resource interpreted as document      error reported as in the title of this issue so it appears that our server code is correct  it s Chrome that is incorrectly reporting that error in the console when it s set to save files to a location automatically

User · Answer

In your request header  you have sent Content-Type  text html which means that you d like to interpret the response as HTML  Now if even server send you PDF files  your browser tries to understand it as HTML  That s the problem  I m searching to see what the reason could be

User · Answer

I ve faced this today  and my issue was that my Content-Disposition tag was wrongly set  It looks like for both pdf  amp  application x-zip-compressed  you re supposed to set it to inline instead of attachment   So to set your header  Java code would look like this       String fileName    myFileName zip   String contentDisposition    attachment   if   application pdf  equals contentType          application x-zip-compressed  equals contentType         contentDisposition    inline     response addHeader  Content-Disposition   contentDisposition      filename       fileName

User · Answer

The problem I had similar problem  Got message in js  Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type text csv  But I also got message in chrome console  Mixed Content  The site at  https   my-site   was loaded over a secure connection  but the file at  https   my-site Download id 99a50c7b  was redirected through an insecure connection   This file should be served over HTTPS  This download has been blocked  It says here that you need to use an secure connection  but scheme is https in message already  strangely      The problem is that href for file downloading builded on server side  And this href used http in my case  The solution So I changed scheme to https when build href for file downloading

User · Answer

After a couple of csv file downloads  lots of tests  chrome asked whether to allow more downloads from this page  I just dismissed the window  After that chrome did not download the file any more but the console sayed    Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type text csv   I could solve that issue by restarting chrome  completely Ctrl-Shift-Q     Update  Not sure why this post was deleted but it provided the solution for me  I had gotten the message earlier about trying to download multiple files and must have answered no  I got the  Resource interpreted     message until I restarted the browser  then it worked perfectly  For some cases  this may be the right answer

[javascript] Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/zip

Examples related to javascript

Examples related to google-chrome