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Displaying PDF from external sources

What is the best way to display a PDF from an external source?

a.

a.

Going w/ http-actions and setup a proxy server to display PDFs downloaded from an external URL to the user?
OR

b.

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.

b.

is the most viable. I'm just making sure I'm not missing any in-built Convex functionality for this specific use case.