C# - File is corrupt after uploaded to server

Question

I used the following source code for upload file excel and pdf, but after the file was moved to server, the file is corrupt. I think the problem is on encoding process Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sourceStream.ReadToEnd());, but I don't know how to resolve it.

public static void sampleUpload()
    {
        // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
        FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://100.165.80.15:21/output/Group Dealer, Main Dealer, Zone, Branch, and Destination Report_20120927105003.pdf");
        request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;

        // This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
        request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("toc", "fid123!!");

        // Copy the contents of the file to the request stream.
        StreamReader sourceStream = new StreamReader("D:\\Group Dealer, Main Dealer, Zone, Branch, and Destination Report_20120927105003.pdf");
        byte[] fileContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sourceStream.ReadToEnd());
        sourceStream.Close();
        request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length;

        Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
        requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);
        requestStream.Close();

        FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

        Console.WriteLine("Upload File Complete, status {0}", response.StatusDescription);

        response.Close();
    }

Answer 1

You can try to use BufferedStream that deal with raw bytes.

Answer 2

Don't read binary files as text. Use Stream.CopyTo method (or equivalent code if you can't use .Net 4.0)

 using(StreamReader sourceStream = ...){
   using(Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
   {
     sourceStream.CopyTo(requestStream);
   }
 }

Answer 3

In my situation I couldn't use Stream.Copy as suggested by Alexei in his answer because I was using .NET Framework 2.0 I instead used only a Stream to read binary files as Streamreader is designed to read text files only:

public static void sampleUpload()
{
    // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
    FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://100.165.80.15:21/output/Group Dealer, Main Dealer, Zone, Branch, and Destination Report_20120927105003.pdf");
    request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
    request.UseBinary = true;

    // This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
    request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("toc", "fid123!!");

    // Copy the contents of the file to the request stream.
    byte[] b = File.ReadAllBytes(sourceFile);

    request.ContentLength = b.Length;
    using (Stream s = request.GetRequestStream())
    {
        s.Write(b, 0, b.Length);
    }

    FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

    Console.WriteLine("Upload File Complete, status {0}", response.StatusDescription);

    response.Close();
}