How to serve a pdf file from ember

Question

I want to make a pdf document available via a link from my ember app, so I figured I would put the file in /public/assets/pdf/ and link to it as <a href='/assets/pdf/myfile.pdf'> just as I would for an image in public/assets/images . However the link isn't sending the file to the browser. I get a 200 response with a Content-Type: application/pdf header, but no file.

What's the right way to do this?

Answer 1

The way you described should work as there's nothing special about the way Ember handles static asset downloads. To verify, I just initialized a new project using Ember 2.3 and placed a pdf in /assets/test.pdf. I then placed the following into my application.hbs file.

<a href='/assets/test.pdf' download>Test</a>

Without the download attribute it opened as a new tab. With the download attribute the file was downloaded like normal.