PDFs from Remote Server

[firespeier]

Hey Folks!

I think this project is great...we are looking for a free html5 viewer for our project, but we really need to access PDFs from probably any html server. Because we want to present PDFs from URLs that are set by our users. Unfortunately that doesn't work with pdf.js yet, right? I really wonder what the problem is? Is this a java script issue or is it generally feasible to support that. It just would be great if it would work...if its not possible, do you guys have any idea how to work around this?

Thank you so much and keep up the good work!
Christoph

[saebekassebil]

Due to Cross domain request limitations this is not possible for JavaScript in most cases. However, you can easily make a "proxy" script running on your own server, so that your javascript can access the file through this proxy, given an URL.

Not a PDF.js bug.

[brendandahl]

It's also possible via CORS http://enable-cors.org/ .

[notmasteryet]

duplicate of #522

[venuxvg]

The following way worked for me

const proxyurl = "https://cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/";
const docUrl = "https://example.com"; // site that doesn’t send Access-Control-*
const finalDocUrl = proxyurl+docUrl

so, use 'finalDocUrl' to get document via pdfjs