How to display Node .get() response in a separate browser tab?

Question

A Node JS application component makes the following call to the server where the response (res) contains a PDF file in the response body.

this.$http.get('/resource/download/' + file.id)
  .then((res) => {
    console.log('back w/ PDF');
  }
);

I can view the PDF data in the response body and have compared it to downloading the same PDF and it looks correct.

How can I display the response in a new tab in the browser so the user can view the PDF?

EDIT:

The "res" parameter return parameter from the $http.get() call is not a URL but the response object from the Node JS app on the server. In the response object the .data property contains the PDF. If this were written to a file it would be a PDF file.

The app interfaces w/ the Google Drive API and we are getting the PDF contents when the user clicks on a file name in our website. We can't provide a link to the PDF on the Google Drive directly because that would require the user to have shared access to Google Drive to view the PDF file.

Is there a way to put the PDF data in a separate browser tab or even embed it in an iFrame?

Possible duplicate of [Open a PDF in a new window of the browser with angularjs](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30053212/open-a-pdf-in-a-new-window-of-the-browser-with-angularjs) — yue you, Feb 05 '18 at 23:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '18 at 23:55

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You can try something like this

$http
  .get(serverUrl)
  .then(function(data){
   //data is link to pdf
   $window.open(data);
});

Hope it helps

answered Feb 05 '18 at 23:55

yue you

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See my Edit to the question which elaborates on the problem. The return parameter from the get() call is not a URL but the response object from Node JS. – ChrisP Feb 07 '18 at 00:25

How to display Node .get() response in a separate browser tab?

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