Opening files in browser instead of downloading

Question

I have a href link to a pdf file that when clicked on it downloads. I want this to just open in a new page instead of downloading.

Answer 1

Your server should return this http header:

Content-Type: application/pdf

For viewing in browser it should also return:

Content-Disposition: inline;filename="myfile.pdf"

For downloading:

Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="myfile.pdf"