PDF not displayed in IFRAME

Hi,

I think I found a bug in Chrome (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=330687 ), but was wondering if Orbeon could maybe work around the problem. Maybe it’s not a bug in Chrome, or it might take a while before it is fixed (note that it fails in Safari also, but works in Firefox and Internet Explorer).

The problem:

-          How to reproduce

o   Deploy the attached orbeon app (see “postpdf-app.zip”).

o   Open http://localhost:8080/orbeon/postpdf/index in Chrome

o   Click Submit

-          Observed behavior

o   The IFRAME contains a dark-gray rectangle (see “bad.png”)

-          Expected behavior

o   The PDF is displayed (see “good.png”)

I use:

-          Chrome 31.0.1650.63 m

-          Orbeon 4.3.0.1.201308150213-CE

-          Apache tomcat 7.0.26

The XForm contains a submit that returns a PDF and the target is set to the IFRAME. It is of course the Orbeon Server that performs the submission, the browser just submits the HTML form to the Orbeon Server. The bug in Chrome seems to be hit when the HTML form is submitted to the same URL as the current page (this is done in resources-packaged/ops/javascript/orbeon/xforms/server/AjaxServer.js: requestForm.action = window.location.href;).

A workaround could be to make sure the URL is slightly different (see “workaround.patch.txt”). But maybe there’s something else going on that I didn’t think of, or there might be a better workaround/solution.

Thanks in advance,

Tars Joris

Development Manager

Inventive Designers