Laravel: Output array of bytes to browser in pdf format

Question

I am getting a response from an external api which contains an array of bytes I'd like to convert to pdf.

So far, I have tried below code in laravel with no success.

$data is received from api.

return response($data)
                ->withHeaders([
                    'Content-Type'=> 'application/pdf'
                ]);

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-27 14:00:58Z

2

The trick is to set the Content-Disposition header to force a download.

return response($data, 200, [
    'Content-type'        => 'application/pdf',
    'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="api.pdf"',
]);

You could also replace attachment with inline to render the pdf in the browser (most modern browser support this).

answered Jul 27, 2018 at 14:00

Alex

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