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I recently moved a bunch of documentation into the Markdown format as I wanted to render it into multiple output formats and inside multiple hosting technologies – including an AngularJS based single page applicaiton.
While doing this I decided it would make sense to have a single source of truth for these files and so placed them as content inside my MVC 5 based website that is entirely public access. After dropping them into the website the first step is to configure ASP.Net to serve the content which involves adding the below to a web.config file:
This enables the Markdown to be served to a browser but if you try and download it from JavaScript you find it blocked by CORS. I solved this with a small ASP.Net module that is installed in the web.config above and the code for which is below:
Hope it’s useful to you.
