I know how to open an internal pdf file :
public ActionResult GetPDF( string filename )
{
return File( filename, "application/pdf", Server.HtmlEncode( filename ) );
}
question is, how to open a PDF file from an other/external website, e.g. http://example.com/mypdffile.pdf
You don't really need a controller action to do this. You could simply:
<a href="http://www.blabla.com/mypdffile.pdf">Open mypdffile.pdf</a>
Of course if you want to hide this address from the user you could use a WebClient to fetch it on the server:
public ActionResult GetPDF()
{
using (var client = new WebClient())
{
var buffer = client.DownloadData("http://www.blabla.com/mypdffile.pdf");
return File(buffer, "application/pdf", "mypdffile.pdf");
}
}
And in your view:
<%= Html.ActionLink("Download PDF", "GetPDF") %>
You will need it locally anyway to do any processing so, you can download it to local folder and then show it. use WebClient or HttpRequest/HttpResponse objects to do the downloading
