How to build PDF file from binary string returned from a web-service using javascript

Question

I am trying to build a PDF file out of a binary stream which I receive as a response from an Ajax request.

Via XmlHttpRequest I receive the following da

Answer 1

The answer of @alexandre with base64 does the trick.

The explanation why that works for IE is here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

Under header 'format' where it says

Some browsers (Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox) accept a non-standard ordering if both ;base64 and ;charset are supplied, while Internet Explorer requires that the charset's specification must precede the base64 token.

Answer 2

I work in PHP and use a function to decode the binary data sent back from the server. I extract the information an input to a simple file.php and view the file through my server and all browser display the pdf artefact.

<?php
   $data = 'dfjhdfjhdfjhdfjhjhdfjhdfjhdfjhdfdfjhdf==blah...blah...blah..'

   $data = base64_decode($data);
    header("Content-type: application/pdf");
    header("Content-Length:" . strlen($data ));
    header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=label.pdf");
    print $data;
    exit(1);

?>