https://neighbourhood.agl.com.au/t5/AGL-Internet-Ideas/Billing-PDF-download-ERROR/idi-p/43888 <P>Support an overt link to a adobe PDF file of a paper bill that can be downloaded for bill printing/filing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Because fake PDF blob file in a webview browser window is blank and gives error...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>What's Actually Happening</STRONG></P><P>The AGL app likely doesn't render your telco bill natively — instead, it opens an internal mini-browser window (a "WebView") that loads the agltelco.com.au portal and generates the PDF dynamically as a "blob" (Binary Large Object) directly in memory, rather than as a file hosted at a normal web address.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Android's WebView component</STRONG> has a well-documented limitation where it fundamentally cannot download or open blob-based files the way a full browser like Chrome can — this has been a persistent issue reported by developers for years, with one detailed technical writeup describing it as "the real reason Android WebView cannot download blob files".</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>The specific error you're seeing,</STRONG> net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, matches exactly what other users hit in identical blob-URL-in-WebView scenarios, including one Stack Overflow case that produced an "IllegalArgumentException: Can only download HTTP/HTTPS URIs: blob:https" error for the identical reason...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="1000072976.jpg" style="width: 1645px;"><img src="https://neighbourhood.agl.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3612i7B8ECC6D908E84BE/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="1000072976.jpg" alt="1000072976.jpg" /></span></P><P> </P><P> </P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P> </P> Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:58:46 GMT VKBob 2026-09-13T04:58:46Z https://neighbourhood.agl.com.au/t5/AGL-Internet-Ideas/Billing-PDF-download-ERROR/idi-p/43888 <P>Support an overt link to a adobe PDF file of a paper bill that can be downloaded for bill printing/filing.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Because fake PDF blob file in a webview browser window is blank and gives error...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>What's Actually Happening</STRONG></P><P>The AGL app likely doesn't render your telco bill natively — instead, it opens an internal mini-browser window (a "WebView") that loads the agltelco.com.au portal and generates the PDF dynamically as a "blob" (Binary Large Object) directly in memory, rather than as a file hosted at a normal web address.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>Android's WebView component</STRONG> has a well-documented limitation where it fundamentally cannot download or open blob-based files the way a full browser like Chrome can — this has been a persistent issue reported by developers for years, with one detailed technical writeup describing it as "the real reason Android WebView cannot download blob files".</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><STRONG>The specific error you're seeing,</STRONG> net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND, matches exactly what other users hit in identical blob-URL-in-WebView scenarios, including one Stack Overflow case that produced an "IllegalArgumentException: Can only download HTTP/HTTPS URIs: blob:https" error for the identical reason...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="1000072976.jpg" style="width: 1645px;"><img src="https://neighbourhood.agl.com.au/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/3612i7B8ECC6D908E84BE/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="1000072976.jpg" alt="1000072976.jpg" /></span></P><P> </P><P> </P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P> </P> Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:58:46 GMT https://neighbourhood.agl.com.au/t5/AGL-Internet-Ideas/Billing-PDF-download-ERROR/idi-p/43888 VKBob 2026-09-13T04:58:46Z