Today I was looking for a quick way to upload a file programatically from C# using HttpWebRequest. First post on Google goes to this post. The main problem with code there is that does not work but did well as starting point. I have modified it to make it work. The result is below. You can get the source code from here with sample usage too.
using System; using System.Collections.Specialized; using System.IO; using System.Web; using System.Net; using log4net; namespace ImportTool { /// <summary> /// Description of ImportTool. /// </summary> public sealed class ImportUtilities { public static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(ImportUtilities)); public static void HttpUploadFile(string url, string file, string paramName, string contentType, NameValueCollection nvc) { log.Debug(string.Format("Uploading {0} to {1}", file, url)); string boundary = "---------------------------" + DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString("x"); byte[] boundarybytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("/r/n--" + boundary + "/r/n"); HttpWebRequest wr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); wr.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary; wr.Method = "POST"; wr.KeepAlive = true; wr.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; Stream rs = wr.GetRequestStream(); string formdataTemplate = "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=/"{0}/"/r/n/r/n{1}"; foreach (string key in nvc.Keys) { rs.Write(boundarybytes, 0, boundarybytes.Length); string formitem = string.Format(formdataTemplate, key, nvc[key]); byte[] formitembytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(formitem); rs.Write(formitembytes, 0, formitembytes.Length); } rs.Write(boundarybytes, 0, boundarybytes.Length); string headerTemplate = "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=/"{0}/"; filename=/"{1}/"/r/nContent-Type: {2}/r/n/r/n"; string header = string.Format(headerTemplate, paramName, file, contentType); byte[] headerbytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(header); rs.Write(headerbytes, 0, headerbytes.Length); FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); byte[] buffer = new byte[4096]; int bytesRead = 0; while ((bytesRead = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) != 0) { rs.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead); } fileStream.Close(); byte[] trailer = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("/r/n--" + boundary + "--/r/n"); rs.Write(trailer, 0, trailer.Length); rs.Close(); rs = null; WebResponse wresp = null; try { wresp = wr.GetResponse(); Stream stream2 = wresp.GetResponseStream(); StreamReader reader2 = new StreamReader(stream2); } catch(Exception ex) { log.Error("Error uploading file:" + file, ex); throw ex; } finally { if(wresp != null) { wresp.Close(); wresp = null; } wr = null; } } } }
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