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Storing A Url To A File In C# .NET

Sunday, April 18, 2010 02:59 AM

This is for all of you C# .NET web developers out there. Been having todo a lot of ridiculous clean up lately which normally includes lots of offline batch processes. I found this method to be uber useful, I'm sure most of you will too.

public void StoreUrlToFile(string url, string destination, int timeout)
{
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.Timeout = timeout;
    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

    if (HttpStatusCode.OK == response.StatusCode)
    {
        using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
        {
            using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(destination, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write))
            { 
                byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
                int bytesRead;
                while (0 < (bytesRead = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)))
                {
                    fileStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}