Question

I have an asp.net MVC application that calls another service to generate a pdf. I want the user to be able to click a link in my View and get a ‘save as…’ dialog from the browser to save the pdf.

The call to the 3rd party service is made in a Model using WebClient.

How to get I the data from the WebClient call up to View and out to the browser so it can be saved?

Answer 1

Try this out

Response.AddHeader('content-disposition', fileName);     Response.ContentType = 'application/pdf'; Response.BinaryWrite(byteArray); 

And of course the bytearray comes from the WebRequest you need to make to get the file