Jeff Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Does anyone know if I can read a text file from a web server
> with the = FileStream class ? For example, if my .net
> application was launched from = www.ws.com\myapp.exe, could I
> read a file from www.ws.com by the name of = mytextfile with
> the following code ?
No you can't read it using a file stream. You need to read it by making a
request to the http server and using a NetworkStream. Something like:
<codeSnippet language="C#">
// Build an http request for the file
HttpWebRequest getFileRequest =
(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://somesite.com/someFile.txt";);
getFileRequest.Method = "GET";
// Get the response
HttpWebResponse getFileReponse = getFileRequest.GetResponse();
// Get the response stream and wrap it in a stream reader
// (note: we're allowing the StreamReader to determine encoding)
StreamReader responseReader = new
StreamReader(getFileReponse.GetResponseStream());
// Read the file contents into a string
string fileContents = responseReader.ReadToEnd();
// Do something with the file contents
Debug.WriteLine(fileContents);
</codeSnippet>
HTH,
Drew
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