Displaying PDF from external sources
What is the best way to display a PDF from an external source?
a. Going w/ http-actions and setup a proxy server to display PDFs downloaded from an external URL to the user?
OR
b. Create /api route to create a proxy endpoint and display to the frontend?
Some PDFs might be larger than 20MB in size, that's why I feel like b. is the most viable. I'm just making sure I'm not missing any in-built Convex functionality for this specific use case.3 Replies
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If they may be larger than 20mb then yeah you'll need to serve it from outside of Convex at the moment
Cool. I've implemented option b.