Can i make asp application or mvc application that can download data from other server (site) using ftp. I have 2 web sites and i want to download a file from one site to another using ftp.
Yes.
Example copied from How to Download Files with FTP. The example is for a console app, but I think you can figure quite easily how to adapt it to your site's structure.
One thing you might consider is just hosting the file on the site (like normal HTTP) and then download it via WebClient instead of 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.DownloadFile;
// This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential ("anonymous","janeDoe#contoso.com");
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
Console.WriteLine("Download Complete, status {0}", response.StatusDescription);
reader.Close();
response.Close();
}
}
}
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I have a project ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC running on IIS.
Want to Export some information from data grid to Excel and save it from web page to the desktop of current user.
string fileName = "SN-export-" + DateTime.Now + ".xlsx";
Regex rgx = new Regex("[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]");
fileName = rgx.Replace(fileName, ".");
string path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
string fileName2 = Path.Combine(path, fileName);
FileInfo excelFile = new FileInfo(fileName2);
excel.SaveAs(excelFile);
This works perfect local at Visual Studio, but not after publishing at IIS.
Using simple path string path = #"C:\WINDOWS\TEMP"; It will save this export file at the server temp folder, but not current web page user.
How to get this?
ASP.NET MVC is framework for a web application. So you have fronted and backend parts. This code will executed on the server side of your application. Even if you use Razor pages, they also generated at the backend. So there are several ways to save data on the computer:
use js to iterate data and save it, but I'm not sure that saving to excel with js is easy;
send desired data to backend, save it to excel and then return to the client.
For a second way you can use next code:
[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class DownloadController : Controller {
//GET api/download/12345abc
[HttpGet("{id}"]
public async Task<IActionResult> Download(YourData data) {
Stream stream = await {{__get_stream_based_on_your_data__}}
if(stream == null)
return NotFound();
return File(stream, "application/octet-stream"); // returns a FileStreamResult
}
}
And because of security reasons you can save data only to downloads directory.
I am having an asp.net core api project and i am trying to read images that exist in my web site but i am getting 404 not found error.
Code line below that throws an exception when executing GetStreamAsync method:
foreach (var item in imgUrls)
{
// read from remote image drive
using (HttpClient c = new HttpClient())
{
using (Stream s = await c.GetStreamAsync(item))
{
// do something with the stream...
}
}
}
The image url is correct, but when i try to paste it in another tab while the app is running, i don't see the image displayed in my browser. am i missing an asp.net configuration or something that prohibit content files such as images from being displayed through the api response.
Note: the imageUrls we send is FQDN urls, for example the url looks like:
http://localhost:25071/images/test.jpg
looking forward to your help.
This is how i fixed the issue, i didn't enable directory browsing in my asp.net core web api.
So i added my static files (images) folder under wwwroot and added below code in startup.cs to configure/allow directory browsing to images folder and app starts to deliver and show images.
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
// few standard lines in here.....
// enable directory browsing
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions()
{
FileProvider = new PhysicalFileProvider(
Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), #"wwwroot\images")),
RequestPath = new PathString("/images")
});
app.UseDirectoryBrowser(new DirectoryBrowserOptions()
{
FileProvider = new PhysicalFileProvider(
Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), #"wwwroot\images")),
RequestPath = new PathString("/images")
});
}
enjoy!
I'm implementing the following scenario: ASP.NET MVC 5 application access OData WebAPI with Azure Active Directory authentication (like in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn463788.aspx ).
However, when I call AuthenticationContext.AcquireToken I get System.Threading.ThreadStateException saying: ActiveX control '8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded
apartment.
EDITED:
Steps to reproduce:
Create New MVC project with Organizational Authentication. Use your Windows Azure Domain and MSDN Account
Add Actice Directory Authentication Library via NuGet
Add action with the following code:
public async Task<ActionResult> Index(){
AuthenticationContext ac = new AuthenticationContext("https://login.windows.net/domain.onmicrosoft.com");
AuthenticationResult ar = ac.AcquireToken("https://domain.onmicrosoft.com/WindowsAzureADWebAPITest",
"a4836f83-0f69-48ed-aa2b-88d0aed69652",
new Uri("https://domain.onmicrosoft.com/myWebAPItestclient")
);
// Call Web API
string authHeader = ar.CreateAuthorizationHeader();
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "https://server.com:44353/api/Values");
request.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation("Authorization", authHeader);
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(request);
string responseString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
return View();
}
Run the code and reproduce the issue (AcqureToken method call).
Please suggest a fix.
Thank you!
That particular overload of AcquireToken() is only usable in a native client app because the way it handles user authentication is by opening a browser window to login.windows.net. This requires the app to host a browser ActiveX control and that's why it needs an STA thread.
Now, in your example the code runs inside IIS on the server machine where hosting ActiveX controls is just not possible.
What you really need is delegation which is described here: http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/10/29/using-adals-acquiretokenby-authorizationcode-to-call-a-web-api-from-a-web-app/
Same author, just the different article.
I have an ASP.NET MVC2 application in development and I am having problems rendering a .pdf file from our production server.
On my Visual Studio 2010 integrated development server everything works fine, but after I publish the application to the production server, it breaks. It does not throw any exceptions or errors of any kind, it simply does not show the file.
Here's my function for displaying the PDF document:
public static void PrintExt(byte[] FileToShow, String TempFileName,
String Extension)
{
String ReportPath = Path.GetTempFileName() + '.' + Extension;
BinaryWriter bwriter =
new BinaryWriter(System.IO.File.Open(ReportPath, FileMode.Create));
bwriter.Write(FileToShow);
bwriter.Close();
System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = ReportPath;
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
p.Start();
}
My production server is running Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.
You cannot expect opening the default program associated with PDF file browsing on the server. Try returning the file into the response stream which will effectively open it on the client machine:
public ActionResult ShowPdf()
{
byte[] fileToShow = FetchPdfFile();
return File(fileToShow, "application/pdf", "report.pdf");
}
And now navigate to /somecontroller/showPdf. If you want the PDF opening inside the browser instead of showing the download dialog you may try adding the following to the controller action before returning:
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=report.pdf");
i suggest you use ASP.NET MVC FileResult Class to display the PDF.
see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.fileresult.aspx
your code open`s the PDF on the webserver.
Here's how I did it.
public ActionResult PrintPDF(byte[] FileToShow, String TempFileName, String Extension)
{
String ReportPath = Path.GetTempFileName() + '.' + Extension;
BinaryWriter bwriter = new BinaryWriter(System.IO.File.Open(ReportPath, FileMode.Create));
bwriter.Write(FileToShow);
bwriter.Close();
return base.File(FileToShow, "application/pdf");
}
Thank you all for your efforts. Solution I used is the most similar to the Darin's one (almost the same, but his is prettier :D), so I will accept his solution.
Vote up for all of you folks (both for answers and comments)
Thanks
I would like to build a simple REST web service (using Ruby on Rails). However, I would like to be able to call this service from a Windows mobile app. Is that possible? or do I have to use SOAP?
I don't have much experience with Windows Mobile apps so it would be nice if you can provide pseudo code or link to tutorial for the possible case.
Thanks,
Tam
Yes you can. I've done it lots using the Win32 wininet API.
You can also do it in C# using the System.Net HttpWebRequest API.
dim sendUrl : sendUrl = baseUrl & url
dim objXML : Set objXML = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")
objXML.open "GET", sendUrl, false
objXML.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objXML.send(sendxml)
HttpPost = objXml.responseText
Set objXML = nothing
On desctop Microsoft offers an com interface which can be used to implement REST APIs.
Maybe this also exists on Windows Mobile.
Here's an example of using a HttpWebRequest to call the twitter search api,hth:
Uri uri = new Uri("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitter");
String result = String.Empty;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream())
{
using (StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.UTF8))
{
result = readStream.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}