Billing PDF download ERROR!

VKBob
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Support an overt link to a adobe PDF file of a paper bill that can be downloaded for bill printing/filing.

 

Because fake PDF blob file in a webview browser window is blank and gives error...

 

What's Actually Happening

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.

 

Android's WebView component 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".

 

The specific error you're seeing, 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...

 

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