I've got a C#, Kendo MVC, Razor site. There's a Kendo grid where one of the cells has a hyperlink to a pdf file, like this:
<a href="http://example.com/Files/File123.pdf" target="_blank">File 123</a>
Clicking on the link opens a pdf in a new browser tab. The problem is, the URL is visible in the browser and can be changed to see another file. For example, the user could replace 123 with 456 and see File456.pdf. I need to do two things:
- Hide the filename in the URL when the pdf is opened.
- Hide the URL when the user hovers over the hyperlink.
Alternatively, I'd take a way to click the link (without the user seeing the URL) and download the file, but I think whether to download or view the file is browser specific.
I would just create an event to send the user back to the controller and handle the opening or download there, but the Kendo grid complicates that and this, as usual, needs to be changed right away. I'll take suggestions on how to manipulate the Kendo row to open a pdf, but I'm hoping there's a simple way to change just hide the URL from the user.