I am trying to upload a .docx file which is in MemoryStream
to FTP
But when upload is completed, the file is empty.
MemoryStream mms = new MemoryStream();
document2.SaveToStream(mms, Spire.Doc.FileFormat.Docx);
string ftpAddress = "example";
string username = "example";
string password = "example";
using (StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(mms))
{
// adnu is a random file name.
WebRequest request =
WebRequest.Create("ftp://" + ftpAddress + "/public_html/b/" + adnu + ".docx");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
reqStream.Close();
}
Write the document directly to the request stream. There's no point using an intermediate MemoryStream
. And StreamReader
/StreamWriter
are for working with text files, while a .docx
is a binary file format, so do not use those either.
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/document.docx");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
using (Stream ftpStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
document2.SaveToStream(ftpStream, Spire.Doc.FileFormat.Docx);
}
Or use WebClient.OpenWrite
:
using (var webClient = new WebClient())
{
const string url = "ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/document.docx";
using (Stream uploadStream = client.OpenWrite(url))
{
document2.SaveToStream(uploadStream, Spire.Doc.FileFormat.Docx);
}
}
You will only need an intermediate MemoryStream
, if the Spire library requires a seekable stream, what the Stream
returned by FtpWebRequest.GetRequestStream
is not. I cannot test that.
If that's the case, use:
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
document2.SaveToStream(memoryStream, Spire.Doc.FileFormat.Docx);
memoryStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/document.docx");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
using (Stream ftpStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
memoryStream.CopyTo(ftpStream);
}
Or again, you can use WebClient.OpenWrite
as in the previous example.
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