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PDF inside iframe not showing in chrome

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Current behavior

According to the comments made by @jennifer-shehane in #2835 , PDFs loaded within iframes used to work in chrome in the past, but they don’t now.

Screen Shot 2022-04-29 at 12 50 40 PM

I’m using cypress 9.6 with chrome 100. This works fine if I instead choose edge (101) or firefox (98).

Desired behavior

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Test code to reproduce

Clone this example repo by @jennifer-shehane and do:

$ npm install
$ npm install cypress@9.6
$ npm run cypress:open

Select Chrome (I’m using v100) and run the test. You’ll see something like my screenshot above instead of seeing the PDF inside the iframe.

Cypress Version

9.6

Other

No response

Issue Analytics

  • State:open
  • Created a year ago
  • Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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sean-mystylecommented, Jun 10, 2022

I have the same issue with Chrome Version 102.0.5005.115 (Official Build) (64-bit)

A few months ago using a Base64 PDF generated inline in an iframe as src via javascript on page, the Chrome PDF Viewer used to load. Now, it does not, just blank, with no errors in console or network tabs in developer tools.

Still works OK as expected in FireFox. I’m guessing this is a Chrome issue…

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mjhenkescommented, May 3, 2022

Using chrome v100 and this simple test, pdfs are not preview-able.

Requires testing.pdf file in project root.

index.html

<html>
<body>
  <iframe src="testing.pdf"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

spec.js

it('Visiting iframe with pdf src', function () {
  cy.visit('index.html')
})

This appears at first glance to be an issue with cypress interfacing with chrome. This issue was not seen with:

  • Firefox 99
  • Chromium 94
  • Edge 101
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