How to read PDF file from remote server and display with Iframe - html

iframe src="https://127.0.0.1/test/helloworld.pdf" height="100%" width="100%"></iframe>
I'm working on a Web Application (jsp) project where it will display the pdf content using Iframe on the web page. However, the file is situated on other remote server/file server. Is there a way for me to retrieve a file from other server and display on my Web Application via iframe?

Doubt it. Opening PDF in your browser - is your browser settings. If my browser can't open PDF in browser - i can't see it.
Look this question on StackOverflow

I just found the solution on this, we can write a java to read the PDF file from remote server and encode it to base64 string. Then, display it on the iframe src.
<iframe src="data:application/pdf;charset=utf-8;base64,-basepdfstringOutput-></iframe>

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I am using HTML with JSF application in my project and also used ClickJack filter option. First I try iFrame, Object, embed for view pdf portion. I refer path in tomcat folder
<iframe src="/path/file.pdf"/>
at the time browser to show error message is To help protect the security of information you enter into this website,
the publisher of this content does not allow it to be displayed in a frame..
So I need any other way to display pdf or doc file in browser is possible?
Chrome, Edge, and other modern browsers can read PDF files within the browser natively. If you use a link like so:
My PDF
It should open a window like this:

Google Chrome complains about flash when using <embed> with PDF file

I'm building a very simple component in Vue to preview PDF files and images in a modal.
I'm using Vue Boostrap's modal component. In the body of the modal I have the following line:
<embed :src="fileSrc" type="application/pdf" height="100%" width="100%">
fileSrc is a prop that the component receives.
When the modal is launched, the PDF visualizer doesn't show and Google Chrome emits a warning saying:
Flash is blocked on this page
I have allowed flash to be displayed on the page but still doesn't work.
If I remove the type="application/pdf" attribute and the fileSrc is a JPEG file, it shows up just fine.
I've also tried with the <object> tag with no luck.
What should I check? What am I missing?
Edit: Why is this question not a duplicate?
Because I wan't to be able to use the <embed> tag to support not only PDF but also images for previewing. The examples in this page work without enabling Flash and without warnings, so I should be able to reproduce this behavior.
I found the answer.
The files I was trying to display with the <embed> were being uploaded to a bucket in AWS S3. When uploading the files (with a PHP script), the Content-Type metadata needed to be set accordingly to the file (i.e. application/pdf for PDF files).
The files were being uploaded with a default Content-Type value, thus the browser didn't know what to do with it once placed in a <embed> tag (the Content-type is used to determine which plugin to choose to display).
I found this method to be very easy to implement as a generic file previewer.

How to load a PDF file embeded in an iFrame on electron browser

We have an app which launches Electron browser. In the Electron browser we load a third party website which has a link.
When we view this site in the Chrome or IE browsers, clicking on this link it renders a PDF in an iFrame but for electron browser it shows a save file dialogue. We want to display this PDF in the electron browser just the same way it works for Chrome and IE. As it is a third party website we don't have control over rendering or loading PDF file or we are not getting any events related with loading of this PDF.
For this scenario, if there is no way to display PDF in electron then it is OK to block it so the Save file dialogue will not show.(This app is actually in the KIOSK so we don't want to save a file if it doesn't render in browser.)
Thanks in advance for your comments!
Here is a discussion on an issue almost identical to yours. The answer does a decent job explaining why the download option is appearing. As for preventing the pdf from being downloaded, try using the <embed> tag as it detects compatibility. So embed the pdf using that tag and then load the html into the <iframe>. Here is some example code and description of how to set that up.

Accessing a Drive Preview from an iFrame in Chrome via SSL

I have an application that uses Google Drive for document storage and preview functionality, but recently the iFrames that the documents are loading into are not displaying anything. Upon inspection of the console, Chrome declares that it blocked the fram from running insecure content, and that is why the file preview did not load.
The initial call to preview this file is to a url that looks like this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d//preview
There is a redirect along the way that takes the following form but because it uses http instead of https, Chrome blocks the content from loading.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=p&q=https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service%3Dwise%26passive%3Dtrue%26go%3Dtrue%26continue%3Dhttps://docs.google.com/document/d//preview?pref%253D2%2526pli%253D1
Is there any way around this issue? It is blocking a core functionality of my application currently, so any advice would be appreciated. I can provide a screenshot of the full stack of network loads in necessary, but this is the only URL that is not http compliant.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hacked that. Add a "?pli=1" without quotes at the end of the URL to avoid redirect (after "/preview" or "/edit") and land directly to the document.

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I am creating an iPad app, using HTML5 and PhoneGap. I am wanting to put an iframe into a page and pull through some content in a php page found remotely on our server.
I have set the correct ExternalHost in the PhoneGap.plist file so that it will accept the external domain.
If I tell the iframe to access a .html page (on the server), it works perfectly - However if I change the extension to .php I get a blank iframe.
This is all while testing the app directly on the iPad and the IOS Simulator.
Could anyone suggest anything I have missed out?