.net uploading to web server

RussellTodd

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Multi part question:
question 1)
while running the following code from a windows application:
Sub uploadFile(ByVal uri As String, ByVal destFile As String, _
Optional ByVal username As String = Nothing, Optional ByVal pwd As String = _
Nothing)
Dim wc As New System.Net.WebClient()
If Not username Is Nothing AndAlso Not pwd Is Nothing Then
wc.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, pwd)
End If
Try
wc.UploadFile(uri, destFile)
lblMessage.Text = "Congratulations you uploaded " & uri & " to " & destFile
Catch ex As Exception
lblMessage.Text = ex.Message
End Try
End Sub

I get the remote server returned an error (405) Method not allowed
I tried: wc.UploadFile(uri, "PUT", destFile) and "POST" no luck.

The weird part is when uploading from the web application - it works to the same server folder: MyFile.PostedFile.SaveAs(fileAndPath)

But I really need to be able to have the software running on the "Clients" PC windows application upload.

question 2) using asp.net is it possible through the web application to download and upload files to specific folders without the user having to know what the folders are, like the windows application?

thanks
 
Working solution to uploading with C# to PHP script

Well after numerous forums, demo projects and sniffing here its is... File Upload to PHP script **WORKING**

1st thanx to the creator of Multipart.cs - Gregory A. Prentice. this files source is here too.


Lets assume this HTML form:

<html>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
Choose a file to upload: <input name="sendfile" type="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
</html>

The important thing for the PHP script is the <input name="sendfile" ... <- "sendfile" < watch it in the PHP script

And upload.php is:

<?php
$uploadDir = 'uploadhere/';
$uploadFile = $uploadDir . $_FILES['sendfile']['name'];
print "<pre>";
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['sendfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadFile))
{
print "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded. ";
print "Here's some more debugging info:\n";
print_r($_FILES);
}
else
{
print "Possible file upload attack! Here's some debugging info:\n";
print_r($_FILES);
}
print "</pre>";
?>

And use this C# code :

private MultipartForm form;
form = new MultipartForm("upload.php");
form.FileContentType = "application/octet-stream";
form.setField("name","userfile");
form.sendFile("yourfile.whatevertype"); //i think the file content doesn`t matter
this.textBox1.Text= form.ResponseText.ToString();


Thats it!

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Multipart.cs in mutiple parts ;)))))) just join this and the next post

MultipartForm.cs
----------------
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;

namespace norvanco.http
{
/// <summary>
/// Allow the transfer of data files using the W3C's specification
/// for HTTP multipart form data. Microsoft's version has a bug
/// where it does not format the ending boundary correctly.
/// Written by: gregoryp@norvanco.com
/// </summary>
public class MultipartForm
{
/// <summary>
/// Holds any form fields and values that you
/// wish to transfer with your data.
/// </summary>
private Hashtable coFormFields;
/// <summary>
/// Used mainly to avoid passing parameters to other routines.
/// Could have been local to sendFile().
/// </summary>
protected HttpWebRequest coRequest;
/// <summary>
/// Used if we are testing and want to output the raw
/// request, minus http headers, out to a file.
/// </summary>
System.IO.Stream coFileStream;
/// <summary>
/// Difined to build the form field data that is being
/// passed along with the request.
/// </summary>
static string CONTENT_DISP = "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=";
/// <summary>
/// Allows you to specify the specific version of HTTP to use for uploads.
/// The dot NET stuff currently does not allow you to remove the continue-100 header
/// from 1.1 and 1.0 currently has a bug in it where it adds the continue-100. MS
/// has sent a patch to remove the continue-100 in HTTP 1.0.
/// </summary>
public Version TransferHttpVersion
{get{return coHttpVersion;}set{coHttpVersion=value;}}
Version coHttpVersion;

/// <summary>
/// Used to change the content type of the file being sent.
/// Currently defaults to: text/xml. Other options are
/// text/plain or binary
/// </summary>
public string FileContentType
{get{return coFileContentType;}set{coFileContentType=value;}}
string coFileContentType;

/// <summary>
/// Initialize our class for use to send data files.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="url">The web address of the recipient of the data transfer.</param>
public MultipartForm(string url)
{
URL = url;
coFormFields = new Hashtable();
ResponseText = new StringBuilder();
BufferSize = 1024 * 10;
BeginBoundary = "ou812--------------8c405ee4e38917c";
TransferHttpVersion = HttpVersion.Version11;
FileContentType = "text/xml";
}
//---------- BEGIN PROPERTIES SECTION ----------
string _BeginBoundary;
/// <summary>
/// The string that defines the begining boundary of
/// our multipart transfer as defined in the w3c specs.
/// This method also sets the Content and Ending
/// boundaries as defined by the w3c specs.
/// </summary>
public string BeginBoundary
{
get{return _BeginBoundary;}
set
{
_BeginBoundary =value;
ContentBoundary = "--" + BeginBoundary;
EndingBoundary = ContentBoundary + "--";
}
}
/// <summary>
/// The string that defines the content boundary of
/// our multipart transfer as defined in the w3c specs.
/// </summary>
protected string ContentBoundary
{get{return _ContentBoundary;}set{_ContentBoundary=value;}}
string _ContentBoundary;
/// <summary>
/// The string that defines the ending boundary of
/// our multipart transfer as defined in the w3c specs.
/// </summary>
protected string EndingBoundary
{get{return _EndingBoundary;}set{_EndingBoundary=value;}}
string _EndingBoundary;
/// <summary>
/// The data returned to us after the transfer is completed.
/// </summary>
public StringBuilder ResponseText
{get{return _ResponseText;}set{_ResponseText=value;}}
StringBuilder _ResponseText;
/// <summary>
/// The web address of the recipient of the transfer.
/// </summary>
public string URL
{get{return _URL;}set{_URL = value;}}
string _URL;
/// <summary>
/// Allows us to determine the size of the buffer used
/// to send a piece of the file at a time out the IO
/// stream. Defaults to 1024 * 10.
/// </summary>
public int BufferSize
{get{return _BufferSize;}set{_BufferSize = value;}}
int _BufferSize;
//---------- END PROPERTIES SECTION ----------
/// <summary>
/// Used to signal we want the output to go to a
/// text file verses being transfered to a URL.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="path"></param>
public void setFilename(string path)
{
coFileStream = new System.IO.FileStream(path,FileMode.Create,FileAccess.Write);
}
/// <summary>
/// Allows you to add some additional field data to be
/// sent along with the transfer. This is usually used
/// for things like userid and password to validate the
/// transfer.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="key">The form field name</param>
/// <param name="str">The form field value</param>
public void setField(string key, string str)
{
coFormFields[key] = str;
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines if we have a file stream set, and returns either
/// the HttpWebRequest stream of the file.
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
public virtual System.IO.Stream getStream()
{
System.IO.Stream io;
if( null == coFileStream )
io = coRequest.GetRequestStream();
else
io = coFileStream;
return io;
}
/// <summary>
/// Here we actually make the request to the web server and
/// retrieve it's response into a text buffer.
/// </summary>
public virtual void getResponse()
{
if( null == coFileStream )
{
System.IO.Stream io;
WebResponse oResponse;
try
{
oResponse = coRequest.GetResponse();
}
catch(WebException web )
{
oResponse = web.Response;
}
if( null != oResponse )
{
io = oResponse.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(io);
string str;
ResponseText.Length = 0;
while( (str = sr.ReadLine()) != null )
ResponseText.Append(str);
oResponse.Close();
}
else
throw new Exception("MultipartForm: Error retrieving server response");
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Transmits a file to the web server stated in the
/// URL property. You may call this several times and it
/// will use the values previously set for fields and URL.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="aFilename">The full path of file being transfered.</param>
 
2nd part

public void sendFile(string aFilename)
{
// The live of this object is only good during
// this function. Used mainly to avoid passing
// around parameters to other functions.
coRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(URL);
// Set use HTTP 1.0 or 1.1.
coRequest.ProtocolVersion = TransferHttpVersion;
coRequest.Method = "POST";
coRequest.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + BeginBoundary;
coRequest.Headers.Add("Cache-Control","no-cache");
coRequest.KeepAlive = true;
string strFields = getFormfields();
string strFileHdr = getFileheader(aFilename);
string strFileTlr = getFiletrailer();
FileInfo info = new FileInfo(aFilename);
coRequest.ContentLength = strFields.Length +
strFileHdr.Length +
strFileTlr.Length +
info.Length;
System.IO.Stream io;
io = getStream();
writeString(io,strFields);
writeString(io,strFileHdr);
this.writeFile(io, aFilename);
writeString(io,strFileTlr);
getResponse();
io.Close();
// End the life time of this request object.
coRequest = null;
}
/// <summary>
/// Mainly used to turn the string into a byte buffer and then
/// write it to our IO stream.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="io">The io stream for output.</param>
/// <param name="str">The data to write.</param>
public void writeString(System.IO.Stream io, string str)
{
byte[] PostData = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(str);
io.Write(PostData,0,PostData.Length);
}
/// <summary>
/// Builds the proper format of the multipart data that
/// contains the form fields and their respective values.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The data to send in the multipart upload.</returns>
public string getFormfields()
{
string str="";
IDictionaryEnumerator myEnumerator = coFormFields.GetEnumerator();
while ( myEnumerator.MoveNext() )
{
str += ContentBoundary + "\r\n" +
CONTENT_DISP + '"' + myEnumerator.Key + "\"\r\n\r\n" +
myEnumerator.Value + "\r\n";
}
return str;
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns the proper content information for the
/// file we are sending.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Hits Patel reported a bug when used with ActiveFile.
/// Added semicolon after sendfile to resolve that issue.
/// Tested for compatibility with IIS 5.0 and Java.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="aFilename"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public string getFileheader(string aFilename)
{
return ContentBoundary + "\r\n" +
CONTENT_DISP +
"\"sendfile\"; filename=\"" +
Path.GetFileName(aFilename) + "\"\r\n" +
"Content-type: " + FileContentType + "\r\n\r\n";
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates the proper ending boundary for the multipart upload.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The ending boundary.</returns>
public string getFiletrailer()
{
return "\r\n" + EndingBoundary;
}
/// <summary>
/// Reads in the file a chunck at a time then sends it to the
/// output stream.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="io">The io stream to write the file to.</param>
/// <param name="aFilename">The name of the file to transfer.</param>
public void writeFile(System.IO.Stream io, string aFilename)
{
FileStream readIn = new FileStream(aFilename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
readIn.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); // move to the start of the file
byte[] fileData = new byte[BufferSize];
int bytes;
while( (bytes = readIn.Read(fileData,0, BufferSize)) > 0 )
{
// read the file data and send a chunk at a time
io.Write(fileData,0,bytes);
}
readIn.Close();
}
}
}
 
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