Opening a PDF in browser instead of downloading it

Question

I\'m using iTextSharp to print a panel into PDF on button click. After clicking on the button, the PDF is downloading to the client\'s computer. Instead of this I need the P

Answer 1

You should look at the "Content-Disposition" header; for example setting "Content-Disposition" to "attachment; filename=FileName.pdf" will prompt the user (typically) with a "Save as: FileName.pdf" dialog, rather than opening it. This, however, needs to come from the request that is doing the download, so you can't do this during a redirect. However, ASP.NET offers Response.TransmitFile for this purpose. For example (assuming you aren't using MVC, which has other preferred options):

Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=FileName.pdf");
Response.TransmitFile(Server.MapPath("~/folder/Sample.pdf"));
Response.End(); 

If you are try to open then the file in apicontroller Convert stream to bytesarray and then Fill the content

HttpResponseMessage result = null;
result = Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK);
FileStream stream = File.OpenRead(path);
byte[] fileBytes = new byte[stream.Length];
stream.Read(fileBytes, 0, fileBytes.Length);
stream.Close();           
result.Content = new ByteArrayContent(fileBytes);
result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition = new System.Net.Http.Headers.ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment");
result.Content.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName = "FileName.pdf";            

I think it will help you...

Answer 2

Change the content-disposition to inline instead of attachment.

The second line of your snippet would then be

Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "inline;filename=" + filename + ".pdf");

See Content-Disposition:What are the differences between "inline" and "attachment"? for further details.

Answer 3

Try This Code :

Action:

Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=" + filename + ".pdf");

To open in new Tab/Window:

@Html.ActionLink("view pdf", "getpdf", "somecontroller", null, 
                  new { target = "_blank" })

OR

<a href="GeneratePdf.ashx?somekey=10" target="_blank">