Downloading large files with axios

Question

I am currently downloading large files to my client code using the axios lib. Files are around 600MB. But during the download process the page crashes, like it runs out of memory or similar.

I need to hold the file in the memmory because the content is encrypted and I need to decrypt it before passing it to the user.

I use the REST GET Http request like this:

  axios.get(url, {
            headers: { 
                "Authorization": authHeader().Authorization,
                "Accept" : "application/octet-stream, application/json, text/plain, */*"            
            },   responseType: 'arraybuffer'

          })
          .then(function(response) {
          console.log(response);

Are there any common workaround around the problem. So far I wasn't able to find any.

Answer 1

Open the url in the new tab on the client side using window.open(url)

Let the browser handle the document automatically, If you want to decrypt the data, please try to decrypt on server side since you'll be giving out decryption key on the client side, which can have security issues.