Webrequestmethods ftp downloadfile

Rick Eyre Rick Eyre 2, 4 4 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. While this code works, it's unnecessarily complicated. You can replace the loop with simple call to Stream. Or you can even replace whole code with WebClient. See my answer below. Easiest way The most trivial way to download a file from an FTP server using. Write buffer, 0, read ; Console. Martin Prikryl Martin Prikryl k 47 47 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. In a sense is the same concept as yours, but yours is a more exact approach since a file could be extensionless.

Thanks Jonas for giving me your time. Thanks a lot once again. I think till the time. NET gives us some API to get list of files and directories, we have to deal with things this way only.

Hi, Code is looking good and works fine. I have a problem: I want to download two types of files everytime. I want to download all files, which are of type. This a real requirement and urgent. Thanks and regards, rcm. Thank you very much for posting this! This was extremely helpful. I'd like to post a link to this on my blog, if I may.

I bet you didn't think that after over 2 years this post would still be helping people. Thanks a lot for the post. It really helped me. Please find C code below. Close ; response. Close ; responseStream. I am getting below error when i use ocl-fng. Please advice. Unhandled Exception: System.

ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path. Combine String path1, String path2 at ftpdownload. DownloadFile String FileName at ftpdownload. And secondly, everything you do with the web is always more or less error prone.

Basic problem in your code is understanding how communication works between server and the client. In the code above you request …. So you send the file, then the ftp client request that the uploade was successful, the server, says "What file? In the code above you request something from the server and the server sends you a response. I dropped the progressbar from your code because ContentLength does not return the filesize actually reading ContentLength causes an error.

You should request Ftp. GetFileSize and read the response. Second change I made is reading incoming data in a blocks and dumping blocks to a file. Reading a large file one byte at a time can be really slow. Anyway, here's my code:. Sorry about formatting. I'm used to old bbcodes, read formatting help but still couldn't get code color-coded I still have one more question Can I get a file from another computer with its ip through internet?

I mean not local. WebException:The remote server returned an error: File unavailable. We're a friendly, industry-focused community of developers, IT pros, digital marketers, and technology enthusiasts meeting, learning, and sharing knowledge.

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We redirect you to this notice instead of stripping out the link to preserve the integrity of the post. I searched and found a lot of codes and I made a code for myself for transfering file through ftp protocole but I got some errors there that I dont know:-s this is my code : Dim FTPRequest As System.

TXT" , System. DownloadFile Dim stream As System. ContentLength ' Set the maximum length of the progress bar.