I need to stream a file which will result in save as prompt in the browser. The issue is, the directory that the file is located is virtually mapped, so I am unable to use Server.MapPath to determine it's actual location. The directory is not in the same location (or even phyical server on the live boxes) as the website.
I'd like something like the following, but that will allow me to pass a web URL, and not a server file path.
I may have to end up building my file path from a config base path, and then append on the rest of the path, but hopefully I can do it this way instead.
var filePath = Server.MapPath(DOCUMENT_PATH);
if (!File.Exists(filePath))
return;
var fileInfo = new System.IO.FileInfo(filePath);
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", String.Format("attachment;filename=\"{0}\"", filePath));
Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", fileInfo.Length.ToString());
Response.WriteFile(filePath);
Response.End();
You could use HttpWebRequest to get the file and stream it back to the client. This allows you to get the file with a url. An example of this that I found ( but can't remember where to give credit ) is
//Create a stream for the file
Stream stream = null;
//This controls how many bytes to read at a time and send to the client
int bytesToRead = 10000;
// Buffer to read bytes in chunk size specified above
byte[] buffer = new Byte[bytesToRead];
// The number of bytes read
try
{
//Create a WebRequest to get the file
HttpWebRequest fileReq = (HttpWebRequest) HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
//Create a response for this request
HttpWebResponse fileResp = (HttpWebResponse) fileReq.GetResponse();
if (fileReq.ContentLength > 0)
fileResp.ContentLength = fileReq.ContentLength;
//Get the Stream returned from the response
stream = fileResp.GetResponseStream();
// prepare the response to the client. resp is the client Response
var resp = HttpContext.Current.Response;
//Indicate the type of data being sent
resp.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
//Name the file
resp.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" + fileName + "\"");
resp.AddHeader("Content-Length", fileResp.ContentLength.ToString());
int length;
do
{
// Verify that the client is connected.
if (resp.IsClientConnected)
{
// Read data into the buffer.
length = stream.Read(buffer, 0, bytesToRead);
// and write it out to the response's output stream
resp.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, length);
// Flush the data
resp.Flush();
//Clear the buffer
buffer = new Byte[bytesToRead];
}
else
{
// cancel the download if client has disconnected
length = -1;
}
} while (length > 0); //Repeat until no data is read
}
finally
{
if (stream != null)
{
//Close the input stream
stream.Close();
}
}