Serving Temporary Files with NodeJs

Question

I am building a NodeJs SOAP client. Originally, I imagined the server (ie the node SOAP client) would allow downloading documents through a REST API (the REST API is authentica

Answer 1

If you are visiting this SO page after Dec 2015, you may find that the previous solution isn't working (At least it isn't working for me). I found a different solution so I thought I would provide it here for future readers.

app.get('/download', function(req, res){
    res.download(pathToFile, 'fileNameForEndUser.pdf', function(err) {
        if (!err) {
            fs.unlink(path);
        }
    });
});