Pdf as inline instead of download

This link will open the file, either in a Web App or a Desktop Application, depending on your settings. To make the link download you need to remove some things from the copied link. Once you paste the copied link into a hyperlink or button or whatever, just remove all text after the? Something like the below:. Is there a way to automate the creation of these links? Article is a year old as of this comment.

Due to this mistake, my pdf was being downloaded rather than viewed , even if had all the required headers in response. This is a simple mistake but cost me a good amount of time.

To resolve this, just go to settings and search for applications and change pdf setting to whatever you need. If the PDF file is inside some folder and that folder doesn't have permission to access files in that folder directly then you have to bypass some file access restrictions using. If you link to a. PDF it will open in the browser. If the box is unchecked it should link to a. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How do I force files to open in the browser instead of downloading PDF? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 5 months ago.

Active 5 months ago. Viewed k times. I tried using the embed tag and an iframe, but it only works when that option is checked.

What can I do? Peter Mortensen Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Quentin k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. ColinM ColinM Taboada but then the user's system may not know the file type. Perhaps if you want to override the user's preferences then octet-stream would be the way to go, but giving the correct type and a suggested filename is the "correct" way to provide a download. So my question is should the content type be set before uploading?

And also, we get only a link from the backend team, a url that gives the file path, that we open in new tab using:window. Kailas I don't understand what you're trying to do.. These headers have no effect on a file upload, you need to have the code behind the url set the headers every time it is downloaded by the client. ColinM Thanks buddy, you said it right, the issue when we debugged was the mime type was set while uploading the files. This should be done by the back-end team.

I tried to get codes on how to add headers in java script but was not successful. Thanks, as I got the real idea cleared from you Show 5 more comments. It uses the custom filename specified on the view side. Christophe Roussy Christophe Roussy Akshay Akshay 2, 3 3 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 70 70 bronze badges. If you have control over the server code you should use 'attachement' as this will allow to use the same filename generation code.

If you have no control over the server this is a good solution. To proceed, select your browser from the list below and follow the instructions.

To change the name of a PDF file you want to download, right-click the download link and select Save As. However, downloading a PDF is still possible. By default, Google Chrome opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder.