iTextSharp generated PDF: How to send the pdf to the client and add a prompt?

Question

I have generated a pdf using iTextSharp, when its created it saves automatically in the location provided in my code on the server not on the client side and of course witho

Answer 1

Currently you are saving your file on the file server, thereby overwriting the same pdf with every request. And probably causing errors if you get two requests for a PDF at the same time.

Use Response to return the PDF (from the memorystream) to the user, and skip the writing of the PDF to a file locally on your server.

The browser will ask the user where the file should be saved. Something like:

  Response.ContentType = "Application/pdf";
  myMemoryStream.CopyTo(Response.OutputStream);

Also look at the answer from Alun, using content-disposition you can propose a filename to the user.