how to send a pdf file through http-post - pdf

Question

I need to send a PDF file through HTTP POST.
I'm sending it using a third party (nSoftware) dll.
But my question is, how to receive it at the server end and save it.
I tried it with HTTPlistener, but unable to do.
Can some one help me on this..
Thanks,
Maddy

Answer 1

I tried below..
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
listener = new HttpListener();
listener.Prefixes.Add("http://localhost:122/");
listener.AuthenticationSchemes = AuthenticationSchemes.Anonymous;
listener.Start();
this.listenThread1 = new Thread(new ParameterizedThreadStart(startlistener));
listenThread1.Start();
}
private void startlistener(object s)
{
while (true)
{
ProcessRequest();
}
}
private void ProcessRequest()
{
var result = listener.BeginGetContext(ListenerCallback, listener);
result.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne();
}
private void ListenerCallback(IAsyncResult result)
{
var context = listener.EndGetContext(result);
Thread.Sleep(1000);
var data_text = new StreamReader(context.Request.InputStream, context.Request.ContentEncoding).ReadToEnd();
var cleaned_data = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(data_text);
byte[] bytes = new byte[1024 * 1024];
int size = 1024 * 1024;
context.Request.InputStream.Read(bytes, 0, size);
using (FileStream fsNew = new FileStream("E:\\temp\\test.pdf", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
{
fsNew.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
context.Response.StatusCode = 200;
context.Response.StatusDescription = "OK";
MessageBox.Show(cleaned_data);
context.Response.Close();
}
With this I'm able to save create a PDF but it's not opening, and also the data is something more than the actual in the original PDF (I think some headers of http).
I hope this makes sense...
Thanks,
Madhu