I am having a slight issue with the HttpWebRequest protocol, and I am wondering whether I should try a different approach or perhaps I am doing something wrong.
The issue I am having is this. I have a client/server which sends a HttpWebRequest to a server. The server receives this response, then runs a small utility which generates a file. The server then sends the file in the Response.OutputStream. The client is supposed to recieve this Stream and write it to a file. Sometimes I get a socket exception, other times the file that the client recieves is only 1kb, while the original file is around 29kb.
What I am trying to accomplish is this. There is two components: server 1 and server 2. server 1 hosts the web application. When a user requests a file using server 1, server 1 should send a command to server 2 to create the file and then server one should recieve this file. I am only worried about the interaction between the two servers so everything there should be automated.
I am wondering what would be the best approach to do this. HttpWebRequest works most of the time, but i want to make it more reliable. Would WebClient be able to do something like this? I assume using an ftp protocol would be a possibility aswell?