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As of release 19 Firefox has a built-in PDF viewer

Technically, Firefox uses a lot of Javascript to convert the PDF document to a similar looking HTML document, which is then rendered by Firefox.

when I use the print $mech->content_type; method it returns the value "text/HTML" for the PDF document

That is a consequence of converting the PDF document to a HTML document.

If you want pre-19 behaviour, disable the PDF converter in Firefox.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: Mechanize Firefox text Method by afoken
in thread Mechanize Firefox text Method by halweitz

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