POST for a dynamic PDF in jQuery

Asked May 13 '14 at 17:58

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I would like to use jQuery to POST for a dynamically generated PDF and display it on the same page.

I have successfully been able to POST the data to a PDF generating script (PHP), create a randomly named PDF file, and return that for jQuery to put into an <object></object> however that generates two requests. I also don't want to have jquery set an <object> src to generate.php?data=DATA_HERE due to the fact that there is a lot of data and I would rather POST

I would like to fetch the binary PDF data with jQuery and embed it into the DOM. Is this possible?

asked May 13 '14 at 17:58

user3621014

You can use an iframe I guess. Changing its source with Jquery. – Vincent Decaux May 13 '14 at 18:06
How? That leads me to the exact same issue with changing the object SRC. I don't want to have to do src="genpdf.php?data=DATA_HERE". That is ugly looking. – user3621014 May 13 '14 at 18:16
How do you want to display on a page without using an Iframe or – Vincent Decaux May 13 '14 at 18:19
Maybe you can look here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/291813/recommended-way-to-embed-pdf-in-html – Vincent Decaux May 13 '14 at 18:26

POST for a dynamic PDF in jQuery

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