Polymerjs Starter Kit: can't serve Word documents

Question

I am using the Polymer Starter Kit to build a small website. However I have run into a problem. I am wanting to serve up Word documents. The usual way is to place these in an anchor tag eg

<a href="../materials/Session1.docx">Session Notes</a>

However this is captured as a page to load by Polymer and produces the 404 page, though the url on the page is correct. When I refresh the page, the document is served up normally.

How can I adjust the starter kit, especially the _pageChanged function so that there is no page change and the normal process of simply serving the document is followed.

Edit:

I have solved the problem, however not using anchor tags. I created a small form component with simply a button. In the form I have two fields which become attributes, one for the form action attribute and one for the button text. This means that in my pages I simply call this component with two attributes

<form-button submit="Button text" action="file location"></form-button>

While not the most elegant solution it has the desired effect.

Answer 1

The easiest way would be to find a CDN or use a Cloud-based solution. You could, for example, use Google Drive and find a sharelink to direct link converter and have it served externally.

Another method, harder, would be to set up another web server on a different port. For example, NGINX running on Port 80, with the PSK running, and Apache running on port 81, serving your Word Documents. Not as convenient, but it would work.