Window.Open with PDF stream instead of PDF location

It looks like window.open will take a Data URI as the location parameter.

So you can open it like this from the question: Opening PDF String in new window with javascript:

window.open("data:application/pdf;base64, " + base64EncodedPDF);

Here's an runnable example in plunker, and sample pdf file that's already base64 encoded.

Then on the server, you can convert the byte array to base64 encoding like this:

string fileName = @"C:\TEMP\TEST.pdf";byte[] pdfByteArray = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(fileName);string base64EncodedPDF = System.Convert.ToBase64String(pdfByteArray);

NOTE: This seems difficult to implement in IE because the URL length is prohibitively small for sending an entire PDF.

Note: I have verified this in the latest version of IE, and other browsers like Mozilla and Chrome and this works for me. Hope it works for others as well.

if (data == "" || data == undefined) {    alert("Falied to open PDF.");} else { //For IE using atob convert base64 encoded data to byte array    if (window.navigator && window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {        var byteCharacters = atob(data);        var byteNumbers = new Array(byteCharacters.length);        for (var i = 0; i < byteCharacters.length; i++) {            byteNumbers[i] = byteCharacters.charCodeAt(i);        }        var byteArray = new Uint8Array(byteNumbers);        var blob = new Blob([byteArray], {            type: 'application/pdf'        });        window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, fileName);    } else { // Directly use base 64 encoded data for rest browsers (not IE)        var base64EncodedPDF = data;        var dataURI = "data:application/pdf;base64," + base64EncodedPDF;        window.open(dataURI, '_blank');    }}