Question regarding downloading a file

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Hi friends,
good morning all..

I have a question on downloading a file from the URL.My question is URL is not the direct path of the file we are going to download rather it calls some method which returns a open/save dialog. but my requirement is while am clicking on some button i need to get that file to local disk location.

To do this i used webclient but it is downloading html page to word document but i need word document only.

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
       {
           string downloadlink = webbrowser.Document.GetElementById("download").GetAttribute("href");
           WebClient client = new WebClient();
           client.DownloadFile(downloadlink, @"E:\Suresh_works\test.doc");
       }

in downloadlink am getting the path like this :: http://mydomain.com/view/download?uname=test&sid=123

when am copy and paste in browser it opens a dialog to choose the option open/save/cancel
i want that file to copy to my localdisk location in button click
Am working on webbrowser control

...........................

Thanks
SureshV

Posted 13-Mar-12 20:00pm

hitech_s

Updated 13-Mar-12 20:26pm

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hitech_s 14-Mar-12 2:18am

any one while u r down voting u should give proper reason for that otherwise dont do such kind of things.. plz

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Dhaval__Patel · Answer 1 · 2012-03-13T20:13:00

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hi suresh ...

i think ur problem is "downloadlink" string ...

plz check this string value is giving correct path of the file u want to download.. it should be full server path of the file...

thnks....

Dhaval Patel

Posted 13-Mar-12 20:13pm

Dhaval__Patel

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hitech_s 14-Mar-12 2:17am

first of all thanks for giving reply

I mentioned that when am pasting the url in downloadlink in any browser it prompts a open/save dialog i dont want that i want that file to copy to localdrive directly in button click ..
if u dont mind, plz read the whole question what i posted

Dhaval__Patel 14-Mar-12 4:59am

hey..
i have tried following code but it simply copied file from url to my machine location... its not prompting any open save dialog...

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string remoteUri = "http://i.technet.microsoft.com/dynimg/";
string fileName = "IC626.gif", myStringWebResource = null;
WebClient myWebClient = new WebClient();
myStringWebResource = remoteUri + fileName;
myWebClient.DownloadFile(myStringWebResource, @"D:\"+fileName);
}

so i dont know what's going with u but its working great with me..

hitech_s 14-Mar-12 6:52am

in your case we know the file what we going to download where as in my case i dont know which file is downloading because another method is calling which returns the original file that is going to be downloaded...

if you observe the URL what i had posted is this one :: "http://mydomain.com/view/download?uname=test&sid=123"

Dhaval__Patel 14-Mar-12 7:26am

i have tried for all the file .. even though i have tried to copy gif file to text file .. it also worked..

hitech_s 14-Mar-12 7:57am

with the above url am posted is not a file directly it calls another method download which in turn returns a file....

Dhaval__Patel 14-Mar-12 9:18am

post ur code ... it will help...

hitech_s 15-Mar-12 0:31am

i posted it in my question.

http://otherdomain.com/view/download?uname=test&sid=123
the above url is not in my site.
file is returning from other site

Dhaval__Patel 15-Mar-12 9:49am

look at code i had posted...
i m also downloading the file from some url.. which is of course not my site ... still it works..

hitech_s 16-Mar-12 1:21am

in my code url looks like this : http://otherdomain.com/view/download?uname=test&sid=123

in your code url looks like this : http://i.technet.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC626.gif

in second case you are specifying the file that is going to be downloaded ..(i.e image name directly )
but in my case i dont know which file is going to be downloaded

Dhaval__Patel 16-Mar-12 2:13am

hi.. gm..

in WebClient.DownloadFile function we specify the relative or absolute path of the file to be downloaded...

so in ur case url is some html file so it will be downloaded..
if u want to download the the file using this function u should have path of it...