Upload file to FTP using C#

Question

I try upload a file to an FTP-server with C#. The file is uploaded but with zero bytes.

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var dirPath = @"C:/Documents and Settings/sander.GD/Bureaublad/test/";

    ftp ftpClient = new ftp("ftp://example.com/", "username", "password");

    string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(dirPath,"*.*");

    var uploadPath = "/httpdocs/album";

    foreach (string file in files)
    {
        ftpClient.createDirectory("/test");

        ftpClient.upload(uploadPath + "/" + Path.GetFileName(file), file);
    }

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(txtnaam.Text))
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Gelieve uw naam in te geven !");
    }
}

Answer 1

The existing answers are valid, but why re-invent the wheel and bother with lower level WebRequest types while WebClient already implements FTP uploading neatly:

using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
    client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpUsername, ftpPassword);
    client.UploadFile("ftp://ftpserver.com/target.zip", WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile, localFilePath);
}

Answer 2

Easiest way

The most trivial way to upload a file to an FTP server using .NET framework is using WebClient.UploadFile method:

WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
client.UploadFile("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip", @"C:\local\path\file.zip");

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Advanced options

If you need a greater control, that WebClient does not offer (like TLS/SSL encryption, ASCII mode, active mode, etc), use FtpWebRequest. Easy way is to just copy a FileStream to an FTP stream using Stream.CopyTo:

FtpWebRequest request =
    (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip");
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;  

using (Stream fileStream = File.OpenRead(@"C:\local\path\file.zip"))
using (Stream ftpStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
    fileStream.CopyTo(ftpStream);
}

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Progress monitoring

If you need to monitor an upload progress, you have to copy the contents by chunks yourself:

FtpWebRequest request =
    (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.example.com/remote/path/file.zip");
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;  

using (Stream fileStream = File.OpenRead(@"C:\local\path\file.zip"))
using (Stream ftpStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
    byte[] buffer = new byte[10240];
    int read;
    while ((read = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
    {
        ftpStream.Write(buffer, 0, read);
        Console.WriteLine("Uploaded {0} bytes", fileStream.Position);
    } 
}

For GUI progress (WinForms ProgressBar), see C# example at:
How can we show progress bar for upload with FtpWebRequest

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Uploading folder

If you want to upload all files from a folder, see
Upload directory of files using WebClient.

Answer 3

public void UploadFtpFile(string folderName, string fileName)
{

    FtpWebRequest request;

    string folderName; 
    string fileName;
    string absoluteFileName = Path.GetFileName(fileName);

    request = WebRequest.Create(new Uri(string.Format(@"ftp://{0}/{1}/{2}", "127.0.0.1", folderName, absoluteFileName))) as FtpWebRequest;
    request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
    request.UseBinary = 1;
    request.UsePassive = 1;
    request.KeepAlive = 1;
    request.Credentials =  new NetworkCredential(user, pass);
    request.ConnectionGroupName = "group"; 

    using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(fileName))
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[fs.Length];
        fs.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        fs.Close();
        Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
        requestStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        requestStream.Flush();
        requestStream.Close();
    }
}

How to use

UploadFtpFile("testFolder", "E:\\filesToUpload\\test.img");

use this in your foreach

and you only need to create folder one time

to create a folder

request = WebRequest.Create(new Uri(string.Format(@"ftp://{0}/{1}/", "127.0.0.1", "testFolder"))) as FtpWebRequest;
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.MakeDirectory;
FtpWebResponse ftpResponse = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

Answer 4

The following works for me:

public virtual void Send(string fileName, byte[] file)
{
    ByteArrayToFile(fileName, file);

    var request = (FtpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(new Uri(ServerUrl + fileName));

    request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
    request.UsePassive = false;
    request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(UserName, Password);
    request.ContentLength = file.Length;

    var requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
    requestStream.Write(file, 0, file.Length);
    requestStream.Close();

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

    if (response != null)
        response.Close();
}

You can't read send the file parameter in your code as it is only the filename.

Use the following:

byte[] bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(dir + file);

To get the file so you can pass it to the Send method.

Answer 5

publish date: 06/26/2018

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/network-programming/how-to-upload-files-with-ftp

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

namespace Examples.System.Net
{
    public class WebRequestGetExample
    {
    public static void Main ()
    {
        // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
        FtpWebRequest request = 
(FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://www.contoso.com/test.htm");
        request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;

        // This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
        request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("anonymous", 
"[e-mail]");

        // Copy the contents of the file to the request stream.
        byte[] fileContents;
        using (StreamReader sourceStream = new StreamReader("testfile.txt"))
        {
            fileContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sourceStream.ReadToEnd());
        }

        request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length;

        using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
        {
            requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length);
        }

        using (FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Upload File Complete, status 
{response.StatusDescription}");
        }
    }
}
}

Answer 6

In the first example must change those to:

requestStream.Flush();
requestStream.Close();

First flush and after that close.