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Laravel Vapor Unable to Download DOCX or XLSX file types

I am using Laravel vapor to host my application, and I am having issue downloading certain file types from AWS S3. I'm wondering if this is a CloundFront issue with the request headers not allowing these file types. Since I am able to download PNG, JPG, PDF files fine, I just have issue with files like DOCX & XLSX. In my API I am just using the Storage facade to stream the download.

    /**
     * Download file from storage
     * @param Document $document
     * @return StreamedResponse
     */
    public function download(Document $document): StreamedResponse
    {
        return Storage::disk('s3')->download($document->path);
    }

Here are the request header which I believe are set

accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9

This is the error that is thrown

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Solution

  • Was able to resolve by making a temporary link to the item in S3 storage, and redirect away for initialize download.

        public function download(Document $document): RedirectResponse
    {
        $url = Storage::temporaryUrl(
            $document->path
            now()->addMinutes(30)
        );

        return Redirect::away($url);
    }

    Refernce from Vapor Docs: https://docs.vapor.build/1.0/projects/development.html#binary-responses