webclient

How to show download progress from FTP

Hey All.. I am downloading a file from an FTP site (Async) and need to update a progress bar. I have read MS documentation that states that this can be done is the WebClient class's GetWebRequest() is ovverriden so the 'UsePassive' property is set to 'false'. I have done this but 'DownloadProgressChanged' event argument ProgressPercenta...

C# Use WebClient.UploadFile(string, string) to upload to a Apache & PHP webserver

The C# WebClient.UploadFile(string, string) sample on MSDN shows how to make it work with an ASPX page handling the upload. However I have a Apache server with PHP set up to handle my subversion repos. I have very little web programming knowledge, but would like to know... Can my Apache/PHP web server handle a file from a c# client usin...

VB.NET DownloadDataAsync:

Hi everybody, I am having the worst trouble getting around a bug, and am hoping that I can get some advice on this site. In short, I am trying to make an asynchronous web service call from my VB.NET application. But my "client_DownloadDataCompleted" callback is NEVER being called when the download is complete. Here is my complete code: ...

Set user-agent header during HTTP CONNECT over SSL?

I am using the WebClient class in .NET 2.0 to perform an HTTP POST over SSL. Currently I'm manually setting the user-agent header like so: wc = new WebClient(); wc.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"); This works fine, except for when I make the request through a proxy server that does HTT...

How to simulate button click programatically

Hai every one, I am developing an application where users can subscribe or unsubscribe to a group of mailing list using .net.I am using webclient class as below NameValueCollection formData = new NameValueCollection(); formData.Add("email", txt_emailid.Text); WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); byte[] responseBytes = webClient.Upl...

.NET WebClient tag property, or keeping track of downloads ?

Hello, I am trying to implement an Asynchronous file download from a web server using private void btnDownload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); webClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("test", "test"); webClient.DownloadFileCompleted += new Asy...

How can I pass information with a WebClient request to identify the object that gets loaded?

I have a collection of custom objects called DataItems which contain URIs of images that I want to load and put in a collection for my Silverlight application to use. As I process each DataItem, I get its SourceUri (e.g. "http://..../picture001.png") and start it loading: void LoadNext() { WebClient webClientImgDownloader = new Web...

Is there anyway to force WebClient to not return cached data?

I'm retreiving images from a web server directory like this: WebClient webClientImgDownloader = new WebClient(); webClientImgDownloader.OpenReadCompleted += new OpenReadCompletedEventHandler(webClientImgDownloader_OpenReadCompleted); if(uriIndex < uris.Count()) webClientImgDownloader.OpenReadAsync(new...

WebClient.DownloadData hangs

Hi. I am trying to download file using WebClient.DownloadData. Usually the download is Ok, but for some Urls the download just hangs. I've tried to override the WebClient, and set a timeout to the WebRequest, and it didn't help. I've also tried to create WebRequest (with time out), then get the WebResponse, and then get the stream. Wh...

Webclient using download file to grab file from server - handling exceptions

Hello everyone, I have a web service in which I am manipulating POST and GET methods to facilitate upload / download functionality for some files in a client/server style architecture. Basically the user is able to click a button to download a specific file, make some changes in the app, then click upload button to send it back. Proble...

Uploading files to file server...

Using the link below, I wrote a code for my application. I am not able to get it right though, Please refer the link and help me ot with it... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263518/c-uploading-files-to-file-server The following is my code:- protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { filePath = FileUpload1.Fi...

How to find from GUI whether Client Side scripting or server side scripting is running

We have a GUI which runs on ASP.NET 2.0 framework (Client-Server model). From the support perspective how can one find whether the pages which are opening on GUI at any point of time is a server side scripting or Client side scripting. The reason why I ask this is because I understand that some of the codes are executed by the browser s...

copy files between servers asp.net mvc

Hi, I am using asp.net, c#, MVC and nHibernate and I am trying to upload a file from a local machine to the server and replicate the file to the different server. I was able to upload file to the server and copy the file from one folder to the other folder on the same server without any problem.But how can I copy the file from one serve...

[C#] WebClient construction overhead

I have a client which makes a limited number of concurrent web requests. I use WebClient for this purpose. I currently have a pool of WebClient-s which I create once and use whichever one is idle. This approach is becoming a little cumbersome though, and I'm wondering if there is any benefit to having a collection of pre-constructed We...

Download multiple files from an array C#

Hi everyone, I have an array of file names which I want to download. The array is currently contained in a string[] and it is working inside of a BackgroundWorker. What I want to do is use that array to download files and output the result into a progress bar which will tell me how long I have left for completion. Is there a way I ca...

Webclient downloadfileasync not working

I got a WPF application and I want to download a file. I'm using System.Net; and I have the following code: WebClient ww = new WebClient(); ww.DownloadFileAsync( new Uri("http://www.sinvise.net/tester/1.jpg"), AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "\\1.jpg"); The problem is, is that it doesn't download the file, it's just ...

What is the best way to download files via HTTP using .NET?

In one of my application I'm using the WebClient class to download files from a web server. Depending on the web server sometimes the application download millions of documents. It seems to be when there are lot of documents, performance vise the WebClient doesn't scale up well. Also it seems to be the WebClient doesn't immediately clo...

.NET WebClient - Upload data, get stream

I have a situation where I want to asynchronously write a series of bytes with WebClient (in much the same way as UploadDataAsync) and get a readable response stream (in the same way as OpenReadAsync). You seem to be able to do the two individually, but not both of them together. Is there a way? ...

[ASP.NET] Odd HttpRequest behaviour

I have a web service which runs with a HttpHandler class. In this class, I inspect the request stream for form / query string parameters. In some circumstances, it seemed as though these parameters weren't getting through. After a bit of digging around, I came across some behaviour I don't quite understand. See below: // The request co...

Calling WebClient within WebService

Hello everybody, I started developing an application in Silverlight that was dealing with downloading the HTML of a website and then parsing it. With Silverlight 4 this can be achieved easily by simply requesting elevated permissions. With Silverlight 3, however, the only way to get the HTML of a website is via a WebService call. My ini...