[Ultimate PDF] UltimatePDF Reference to https://storage.googleapis.com/

Zubair

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[Ultimate PDF] UltimatePDF Reference to https://storage.googleapis.com/

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Published on 14 Nov 2020

Dears,

We are using Ultimate pdf to convert html to pdf. It goes to https://storage.googleapis.com to check the chromium version while setting the local browser.

Our Information Security team is asking what exactly is being to google apis and what does apis do to set up the local browser.

Could you please provide the details? Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Zubair

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on 2019-12-15

Leonardo Fernandes

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Hi Zubair.

It uses that URL to download Chromium binaries. This allows the component to work without requiring any setup.

If you can't have that dependency, you're going to have to provide the binaries yourself. You can use the action SetupDefaultChromiumBrowserRevision or SetupBrowserRevision to provide the binaries without requiring a connection to any external server. You only need to do this once per environment.

on 2019-12-22

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Zubair

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Leonardo Fernandes wrote:

Hi Zubair.

It uses that URL to download Chromium binaries. This allows the component to work without requiring any setup.

Dear Leonardo,

Thanks for your response.I used SetupBrowserRevision action and passed the binaries as zip to this server action. It is working fine. However the component is always expecting the files under C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\.local-chromium, and since its under Windows Temp dierctory there is risk folder might be deleted during temporary files clean up on the server.

Is there a way we can change the directory path for this component. I tried to modify chrlauncher.ini by giving full path as ChromiumDirectory = D:\.local chromium instead of ChromiumDirectory=.\bin but I encountered the error below

Could not find a part of the path 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\.local-chromium\Win64-637110\chrlauncher-win64-stable-ungoogled\chrlauncher - official website - donation.url'.

Any inputs on changing the directory will be highly appreciated.

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Zubair

on 2019-12-22

Leonardo Fernandes

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Zubair, it's not possible to change that path at the moment. I might add that feature in future versions.

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Dear Leonardo,

Just following up on this, if you had time to look on changing the path for this component binary files.

Thanks

Zubair

on 29th Oct

Leonardo Fernandes

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Hi Zubair. The latest release has a site property that allows you to change which folder will be used to download and unpack the Chromium browser.

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Dear Leonardo,

Thanks for your help. I shall download the latest release and apply the same.

Regards,

Zubair

on 8th Nov

Zubair

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Dear Leonardo,

We used the latest plugin however we are getting the error "Failed to launch browser! path to executable does not exist", we have the local set up files present under C:\Windows\Temp\.local-chromium and the site property PreventAutomaticDownloads is True. We tried with and without temporary folder path but still same error.

Attaching the screenshot of the site properties configuration and error.

Could you please advise how we can fix this error?

Thanks,

Zubair

on 10th Nov

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Replying to Zubair's comment on 10 Nov 2020 08:12:57

Hi Zubair. Make sure the following file exists and is readable by IIS_IUSRS: C:\Windows\Temp\.local-chromium\Win64-706915\chrome-win\chrome.exe

That is the path the extension is expecting. I will change the extension so that it includes more relevant information in the error message.

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Zubair

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Replying to Leonardo Fernandes' comment on 10 Nov 2020 12:38:21

Dear Leonardo,

Thanks for your reply. We did give the permission to IIS_Users however it still gave the same error. Also we did the following settings to run the application with an user(Application - Operation - Run As - Entered user details) who has full permission on the folder but still same error. Below is the configuration details of the application and site properties.

Could you please advise if we are missing something here?

on 11th Nov

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Zubair, you should set the TemporaryFolder site property to C:\Windows\Temp (or leave it blank since this is the default).

Let me know if that fixes your issue. If it doesn't, try using the last release, which will generate an error that includes the expected path of the executable.

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Dear Leonardo,

Good Day. Thanks for your response.

We had tried with C:\Windows\Temp or blank but both were giving error. However I noticed that the component is always checking for folder Win64-706915 under .local-chromium and in our case the temp folder was created as Win64-637110 hence it was giving the error.

The old error was resolved after renaming Win64-637110 to Win64-706915. However now we are getting another error "http://hostname/UltimatePDFDemo/SampleReport01.aspx: Protocol error (IO.read): Invalid parameters handle: string value expected".

Please note that it is coming after updating LocalServerProtocol site property to "http", with blank i.e. https it gives the SSL certificate error "err_cert_common_name_invalid" As we don't have matching certificate in test environment and would like to make it work with http.

Below is the complete stack trace of the error and also the site property configuration

Protocol error (IO.read): Invalid parameters handle: string value expected