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So... close...

It'd be easy to make a greasemonkey-style extension that calls this on *, but it wouldn't work for links to other domains (which I'd bet are the majority of PDF links)

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That would already be very useful though, for things like online papers and datasheets, which as a rule sit on the same server as the page you're looking at.

It's becoming more common to use a separate domain for static content like this to be cached more effectively (and to have no cookies etc sent), so it may not always be the same server as the page you're looking at.

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