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> AddType application/octet-stream .pdf

Please don't do this. I would rather have my browser's default behavior for application/pdf than have your web site force it to treat your PDF files as opaque binary blobs.

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Ditto the above comment. If users don't want to be asked if they want to download/open a file they can use the "Automatically do this from now on" option that Firefox gives them, or the equivalent in their preferred browser. Then users get their preferences, and the not servers forced on them.

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