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Reputation: 15251

PHP: stream remote pdf to client browser

there's a pdf generated on an external service and I would like to stream the pdf to the browser in my php server while streaming to client so that I don't need to download the pdf from the remote file and then start initializing download. I would just have the file immediately download or stream to the client requesting it.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 29893

Answers (2)

Med.ZAIRI
Med.ZAIRI

Reputation: 190

Even this is an old question but I found it when looking for something else, so, my response is for next visitors

To render a pdf file as stream use the Header:

header("Content-disposition: inline; filename=YOURFILE.pdf");

ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Disposition

Upvotes: -1

Filippos Karapetis
Filippos Karapetis

Reputation: 4652

Assuming that the generated pdf is in http://bar.com/foo.pdf, you could do:

  $data = file_get_contents("http://bar.com/foo.pdf");
  header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
  header("Content-disposition: attachment;filename=YOURFILE.pdf");

  echo $data;

Upvotes: 21

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