What about this: WebClient wc = new WebClient(); byte[] pageData = wc.DownloadData("http://www.someserver.com/mytestfile.txt");
This has worked for me... Seang -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] FileStream question 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 ? string Dir = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory; file = new FileStream(Dir+"mytextfile", FileMode.Open,FileAccess.Read,FileShare.ReadWrite); reader = new BinaryReader(file, Encoding.Unicode); You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.