Quick summary

Our Media Libray allows uploading media files from a URL, but it returns an error for PDF files.

Steps to reproduce

1. Navigate to your Media Library
2. Use the arrow next to the Add New button to select the option to Add via URL
3. Insert your PDF URL (example: https://www.africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf)
4. Notice the upload fails and returns the error 1 file could not be uploaded because an error occurred while uploading.

What you expected to happen

The PDF file to show in the Media Library.

What actually happened

The upload fails and an error is returned.

@dragstor noticed this response from an XHR request on an Atomic site:

{
    "code": 400,
    "headers": [
        {
            "name": "Content-Type",
            "value": "application\/json"
        }
    ],
    "body": {
        "error": "",
        "message": ""
    }
}

And this one on a Simple site:

{
    "code": 400,
    "headers": [
        {
            "name": "Content-Type",
            "value": "application\/json"
        }
    ],
    "body": {
        "errors": [
            {
                "file": "https:\/\/www.africau.edu\/images\/default\/sample.pdf",
                "error": "invalid_input",
                "message": "Invalid file type."
            }
        ]
    }
}

Impact

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple, Atomic

Logs or notes

6416275-zd-woothemes
p2EDhh-20Q-p2#comment-8679