Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

Question

What is the recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

• iFrame?
• Object?
• Embed?

What does Adobe say itself about it?

In my

Answer 1

To stream the file to the browser, see Stack Overflow question How to stream a PDF file as binary to the browser using .NET 2.0 - note that, with minor variations, this should work whether you're serving up a file from the file system or dynamically generated.

With that said, the referenced MSDN article takes a rather simplistic view of the world, so you may want to read Successfully Stream a PDF to browser through HTTPS as well for some of the headers you may need to supply.

Using that approach, an iframe is probably the best way to go. Have one webform that streams the file, and then put the iframe on another page with its src attribute set to the first form.