Pdf link in Safari

Good morning,
I have problems with pdf link in Safari. Tapping on them they don't work.
Thanks for the support.
Danilo

You may like to experiment with this manually first, if it works then finalize it in a script:
1) manually login to you secure site.
2) copy the URL address
3) launch Terminal and type in:
'/System/Library/Automator/Get Link URLs from Webpages.action/Contents/Resources/links' 'http://the.copied.URL'
replace http://the.copied.URL with real URL, it should return a list of links in the URL.
4) If the PDF links is in it, then you'll try to download it using curl command, still in Terminal; type in:
/usr/bin/curl 'http://path.to.PDF.URL' -o ~/foo.pdf
replace http://path.to.PDF.URL with the pdf link, and with any luck you download you PDF to your home folder.

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