Michael E. Chancey Jr.

Read File From FTP Using C#

// May 18th, 2010 // Useful Code

Here is a small snippet on reading a text file from an FTP server. This could be replaced with a binary file or any other type; I just used a text file to keep it simple.

Code

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            //CREATE AN FTP REQUEST WITH THE DOMAIN AND CREDENTIALS
            System.Net.FtpWebRequest tmpReq = (System.Net.FtpWebRequest)System.Net.FtpWebRequest.Create("ftp://domain.com/file.txt");
            tmpReq.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("userName", "Password");

            //GET THE FTP RESPONSE
            using (System.Net.WebResponse tmpRes = tmpReq.GetResponse())
            {
                //GET THE STREAM TO READ THE RESPONSE FROM
                using (System.IO.Stream tmpStream = tmpRes.GetResponseStream())
                {
                    //CREATE A TXT READER (COULD BE BINARY OR ANY OTHER TYPE YOU NEED)
                    using (System.IO.TextReader tmpReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(tmpStream))
                    {
                        //STORE THE FILE CONTENTS INTO A STRING
                        string fileContents = tmpReader.ReadToEnd();

                        //DO SOMETHING WITH SAID FILE CONTENTS
                    }
                }
            }