and while you're at it, could you change the error:
"not allowed URI in PDF file"
to
"prohibited link in PDF file"
or something like that?
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:31 PM, K Post <nntp.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With AFC 4.52 and no exceptions to exe-bin, we've found some PDF's with
> web links in them to be erroneously blocked.
>
> This seems to happen with the PDF is created with certain invoicing
> software which creates *annotations* to link text to the vendor's
> website. Why they're doing this, I have no idea, but we can't change that
> - these are inbound PDF's.
>
> I looked at one of the problem PDF's using a binary capable text editor
> and saw a section like this:
>
> 18 0 obj
> <<
> /Type /Annot
> /Subtype /Link
> /Border [0 0 0]
> /Rect [110 671 177 680]
> /A << /Type /Action /S /URI /URI (http://example.com) >>
> >>
> endobj
>
>
> If I remove that entire section, the file passes through ASSP filtering
> without issue.
>
> If I create a sample PDF in Word and just have a link to a website, all is
> fine, the trouble seems specific to annotations with links in them.
>
> For the time being, I've added the :URIPDF exception and the messages are
> getting through.
>
> Do you think this is something that can be addressed?
>
>
>
>
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