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Last active July 13, 2024 15:24
Restoring a PDF file from chrome cache

So I was trying to do my duties as a good civilian by paying taxes of stuff you already own.

In this particular case it meant going to the website and try and generate a PDF document that would allow me to pay for said stuff. After 2 unsuccessful attempts to generate the PDF (got greeted by 500s), I finally got the PDF open on chromium (using the PDF preview) and trying to save, the browser crashed..

I then quickly reboot chromium and tried to generate the PDF again, only to find out that I can't, the website only allows you to generate the document and download once, this is a critical document used as prof and means to pay your taxes. It doesn't really make much sense that you only can download it once, but such is the way of life.

I've been suffering from this bug for quite a while, but it never affected me in this way.

The file wasn't on ~/Downloads, so I've tried browsing chrome://cache and after a while I found the PDF HTTP request, w