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Upload from URL, not local file system

Have to admit, I know nothing about .NET and come from a classic ASP world as far as server-side programming goes... Anyway.

What we're looking to do is to upload an image from a user provided URL to server, rather than prompting user for a file on their computer.

To demonstrate behaviour:
have a look at http://imageshack.us/

upload: http://img.youtube.com/vi/PTU2He2BIc0/default.jpg

results in the image being hosted at:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8094/defaultgh3.jpg

The company that I now work for is a .NET shop that has recently migrated to 2.0 and uses a third party component http://www.powupload.com/ for it's current uploading needs.

Thanks for your thoughts.

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Solar_Flare

to do this you would just use a TextBox to enter the URL, then when a button is clicked you would get the server to retrieve the file at the given URL

eg

void UploadHandler(object sender, eventargs e)
{
   if(Textbox1.text != string.empty)
   {
      System.Net.WebClient c = new System.Net.WebClient();
      byte[] imageBytes = c.DownloadData(TextBox1.Text);
      //now save imagebytes or whatever
   }
 
}

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steam23

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I guess this would be customizing of how powupload handles being passed a string?

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