diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/app/opendocument/droid/test/MainActivityTests.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/app/opendocument/droid/test/MainActivityTests.kt
index f415ba854256..177fed3338bc 100644
--- a/app/src/androidTest/java/app/opendocument/droid/test/MainActivityTests.kt
+++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/app/opendocument/droid/test/MainActivityTests.kt
@@ -175,6 +175,56 @@ class MainActivityTests {
         onView(withText(R.string.action_contact)).check(matches(isDisplayed()))
     }
 
+    /** A page the server answers with an error is not a document, whatever the load reported. */
+    @Test
+    fun aPageTheServerCannotServeOffersContact() {
+        val activity = mainActivityActivityTestRule.activity
+        val documentFragment = loadDocument(activity, requireTestFile("test.odt"))
+
+        val partUri = documentFragment.lastDocument?.partUris?.firstOrNull()
+        Assert.assertNotNull("no page was published", partUri)
+
+        val pageView = documentFragment.pageView
+        Assert.assertNotNull(pageView)
+
+        // a path the server has nothing under, which errors the same way a page it cannot render
+        InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().runOnMainSync {
+            pageView!!.loadUrl("$partUri.missing")
+        }
+
+        // the webview reports the error long after loadUrl returns, and nothing idles on it
+        Assert.assertTrue(
+            "the page that failed was not given up on",
+            waitFor(10000) { documentFragment.lastDocument == null },
+        )
+
+        onView(withText(R.string.dialog_broken_file)).check(matches(isDisplayed()))
+        onView(withText(R.string.action_contact)).check(matches(isDisplayed()))
+    }
+
+    /** A link that fails is not the document failing, and must not be reported as one. */
+    @Test
+    fun aLinkThatFailsLeavesTheDocumentOpen() {
+        val activity = mainActivityActivityTestRule.activity
+        val documentFragment = loadDocument(activity, requireTestFile("test.odt"))
+
+        val pageView = documentFragment.pageView
+        Assert.assertNotNull(pageView)
+
+        // what the webview is left to try when shouldOverrideUrlLoading finds no app for a link
+        InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().runOnMainSync {
+            pageView!!.loadUrl("nosuchscheme://example")
+        }
+
+        // a plain wait: this asserts something does not happen, after a webview round trip
+        // that nothing idles on
+        SystemClock.sleep(3000)
+        InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().waitForIdleSync()
+
+        Assert.assertNotNull("the document was given up on", documentFragment.lastDocument)
+        onView(withText(R.string.dialog_broken_file)).check(doesNotExist())
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun testODTEditMode() {
         val activity = mainActivityActivityTestRule.activity
@@ -330,6 +380,17 @@ class MainActivityTests {
         return fragment
     }
 
+    private fun waitFor(timeoutMs: Long, condition: () -> Boolean): Boolean {
+        val startMs = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime()
+        do {
+            if (condition()) {
+                return true
+            }
+            SystemClock.sleep(100)
+        } while (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - startMs < timeoutMs)
+        return false
+    }
+
     private fun waitForDocumentFragment(
         activity: MainActivity,
         timeoutMs: Long,
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/DocumentFragment.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/DocumentFragment.kt
index 6a43c709fafe..80fd9b697209 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/DocumentFragment.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/activity/DocumentFragment.kt
@@ -627,6 +627,41 @@ class DocumentFragment : Fragment(), DocumentLoader.Listener {
         state.endLoadIdling()
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The page [PageView] was given cannot be shown after all, so this ends where a document that
+     * would not open ends: back on the landing screen, offering to tell us about it.
+     *
+     * It arrives after [onLoadSuccess] rather than instead of it, which is why it undoes it instead
+     * of going through [isActivityReadyForOutcome].
+     */
+    fun onPageFailed() {
+        // already given up on, or a second view of the same failure
+        if (state.lastDocument == null) {
+            return
+        }
+
+        if (activity == null || isStateSaved) {
+            replayOnStart = { onPageFailed() }
+
+            return
+        }
+
+        val activity = requireActivity()
+
+        analyticsManager.report(
+            "page_failed",
+            AnalyticsConstants.PARAM_CONTENT_TYPE,
+            state.lastFile?.mimeType,
+        )
+
+        unload()
+        dismissProgress()
+
+        giveUp(activity)
+
+        offerContact(activity)
+    }
+
     override fun onEncrypted(request: DocumentRequest, file: IdentifiedFile) {
         if (!isActivityReadyForOutcome(request, file) { onEncrypted(request, file) }) {
             return
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt
index f021947c92db..f5f1f59d1f92 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/opendocument/droid/ui/widget/PageView.kt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import android.util.Base64InputStream
 import android.webkit.JavascriptInterface
 import android.webkit.WebResourceError
 import android.webkit.WebResourceRequest
+import android.webkit.WebResourceResponse
 import android.webkit.WebView
 import android.webkit.WebViewClient
 import androidx.annotation.Keep
@@ -101,10 +102,32 @@ constructor(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet?) :
                         return
                     }
 
-                    crashManager.log(
-                        RuntimeException(
-                            "loading ${request.url} failed: ${error.errorCode} ${error.description}"
-                        )
+                    failPage(
+                        request.url,
+                        "loading ${request.url} failed: ${error.errorCode} ${error.description}",
+                    )
+                }
+
+                /**
+                 * An error status is the only shape a rendering failure has here: the core
+                 * translates a page on the server thread, long after `CoreLoader` reported success.
+                 * [onReceivedError] never sees it - the server did answer.
+                 */
+                override fun onReceivedHttpError(
+                    view: WebView,
+                    request: WebResourceRequest,
+                    errorResponse: WebResourceResponse,
+                ) {
+                    super.onReceivedHttpError(view, request, errorResponse)
+
+                    if (!request.isForMainFrame) {
+                        return
+                    }
+
+                    failPage(
+                        request.url,
+                        "serving ${request.url} failed: " +
+                            "${errorResponse.statusCode} ${errorResponse.reasonPhrase}",
                     )
                 }
 
@@ -180,6 +203,19 @@ constructor(context: Context, attributeSet: AttributeSet?) :
         super.destroy()
     }
 
+    /** Reports a page that will never appear. [description] is all there is of the cause. */
+    private fun failPage(url: Uri, description: String) {
+        crashManager.log(RuntimeException(description))
+
+        // only the document is the app's to give up on. a link shouldOverrideUrlLoading could not
+        // hand to another app is left to the webview, and fails here as a main frame load too
+        if (!isOwnContent(url.toString())) {
+            return
+        }
+
+        documentFragment.onPageFailed()
+    }
+
     /** Whether [url] is a document we produced: a cached file, or the core's own http server. */
     private fun isOwnContent(url: String): Boolean =
         url.startsWith("file://") || url.startsWith(LOCAL_SERVER_URL_PREFIX)