If I add a pdf file as web location and I click on the update button, I get a crash:

org.jsoup.UnsupportedMimeTypeException: Unhandled content type. Must be text/*, application/xml, or application/xhtml+xml. Mimetype=application/pdf, URL=https://andrewolff.jalbum.net/VechtSaharaN_FB/routebeschrijving-den-haag.pdf
	at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection$Response.execute(HttpConnection.java:689)
	at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection$Response.execute(HttpConnection.java:628)
	at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection.execute(HttpConnection.java:260)
	at org.jsoup.helper.HttpConnection.get(HttpConnection.java:249)
	at org.jsoup.Jsoup.parse(Jsoup.java:183)
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.WebLocation.findRepresentingImage(WebLocation.java:332)
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.JWebLocationEditPanel$1$1.doInBackground(JWebLocationEditPanel.java:78)
	at se.datadosen.jalbum.JWebLocationEditPanel$1$1.doInBackground(JWebLocationEditPanel.java:63)
	at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingWorker$1.call(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingWorker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

The used pdf-file https://andrewolff.jalbum.net/VechtSaharaN_FB/routebeschrijving-den-haag.pdf exists,
This was OK in the past.
It works too correctly with html files.

System Windows 10 and jAlbum 22.1.3

Edit:

This is a bug, so it should be moved to the Bug reports thread.

Edited by: AndreWolff on 12-Feb-2021 10:43

I use jAlbum 23.2 on a Windows 10 sytem
FancyBox, but it has nothing to do with the skin, I see it also with the Minimal skin en in a new project with the Tiger skin.

A web location should be a web page. A PDF is not a web page - it's just a file.

It does work, as long as you stay away from the Update buttons. Choose New page... web location, and enter a URL, like https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/frenchpress.pdf. But then do not click Update - that's what tells the jAlbum core to visit the web page and try to extract a representing image from it. It won't work, because the PDF is not a web page - there are no images there. Just move down to the Image URL field and choose an image to represent the page. Again, lay off the Update button. Just click OK, and make your album.

ETA: The expected way of showing a PDF in an album is to add the PDF as a regular album object, and then let the skin display it in the album. There should be no need to try to torture the web location routine into handling it.

If it's on a remote website, you need to download it, then add it to your project.

If a JPG or MP4 is available on a remote site, should you be able to add it as a web location?

If it is on someone else’s website it shouldn’t be made to appear on your own, at least without permission. The linked file in the first post includes the statement ‘ No part of this publication may be reproduced and / or made public by means of print, photocopy, publication on the internet or in any other way, without the prior written permission of Wandelnet.’ I trust that such permission has been given and is available for jAlbum, should they ask for it, to ensure the content is ok.

Indeed if I don't click the Update button, it works.

But I think it would be nice if jAlbum suppresses the crash in case a PDF-file or image is selected as weblocation!

It would be better to disable the update button if the file type is not supported as a web location.

You see that effect in the FancyBox sample album, click on the thumbnails 7 and 8 to see the difference.