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create a stream from a URL and then write that stream to response

Hi,

I have a URL in a string and there is a file at that URL lets say abc.com/file.js
Now, i want to load that file in a stream (i think by byte array) and then reponse.write on the page

so that file.js or any other text file appeared on the page.

So far my code is
path variable contains the url

HttpWebRequest WebReq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(path);
            WebReq.Method = "GET";
            HttpWebResponse WebResp = (HttpWebResponse)WebReq.GetResponse();
            Stream str = WebResp.GetResponseStream();

            int byteCount = (int)str.Length;
            byte[] fileBytes = new byte[byteCount];
            str.Read(fileBytes, 0, byteCount);

            Response.ClearContent();
            Response.ClearHeaders();
            Response.BinaryWrite(fileBytes);
            Response.End();

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currently its giving me error

"System.NotSupportedException: This stream does not support seek operations."

on Line

int byteCount = (int)str.Length;

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Carlos Villegas

Try:

int byteCount = (int)WebResp.ContentLength;

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Carlos Villegas

And if you want to write to the server then you must to use the post method in a separate request.

WebReq.Method = "POST";

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Carlos Villegas

Also I recommend you to explore the System.Net.WebClient class, it is very useful for what you want to do, and simple.

Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient.aspx