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Failure to open local file in windows platform

See original GitHub issue

Configuration:

Web browser and its version: Electron 1.7.8 ( use webpack and set target: 'electron-renderer')
Operating system and its version: Windows 10
PDF.js version: pdfjs-dist: 1.9.640
Is an extension: no

Steps to reproduce the problem:

try to open C:/User/1234/Desktop/a.pdf
window.location transform it to file:///C:/User/1234/Desktop/a.pdf
PDFNodeStreamFsFullReader get /C:/User/1234/Desktop/a.pdf
ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat C:\C:\User\1234\Desktop\a.pdf

What went wrong?

the pr https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/8928 is not working

path before decodeURI: /C:/User/1234/Desktop/a.pdf. Howerver, after decodeURI, path is still the same.

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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juncaixinchicommented, Mar 21, 2018

@matteodem It’s not possible to use the fetch api to load local files via file protocol. However, the pdf.js supports reading local files if you are in NodeJS environment.

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matteodemcommented, Mar 20, 2018

@juncaixinchi …so this means this is not possible? as in the original issue is unresolved / unresolvable?