Display PDF stream returned from controller using jquery in new window

Question

I have a controller action which reads a .pdf file from azure blobstorage and returns stream object to the $.ajax() method.

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Answer 1

Why don't you just use standard HTML? There's no need for Javascript here (as you created a standard tag for initial trigger of action).

Something like:

Notes:

• be sure to set an header Content-Type: application/pdf in your Azure script, so that the browser will know it's a PDF
• as @JamesBlond stated you may not see it if you don't have a browser's plugin to read PDF. But you'll have a nice download box, and the new tab will be closed automatically