You were so close! Use a stream to convert your download into a byte array for upload.
I recently made a program to do just this! This will currently copy all files from one FTP directory to another so long as there is not a file in the target directory with the same name. It would be easy to change if you only wanted to copy one file, just use the copyFile, toByteArray and upload functions:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
namespace Copy_From_FTP
{
class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
List<FileName> sourceFileList = new List<FileName>();
List<FileName> targetFileList = new List<FileName>();
//string targetURI = ftp://www.target.com
//string targetUser = userName
//string targetPass = passWord
//string sourceURI = ftp://www.source.com
//string sourceUser = userName
//string sourcePass = passWord
getFileLists(sourceURI, sourceUser, sourcePass, sourceFileList, targetURI, targetUser, targetPass, targetFileList);
Console.WriteLine(sourceFileList.Count + " files found!");
CheckLists(sourceFileList, targetFileList);
targetFileList.Sort();
Console.WriteLine(sourceFileList.Count + " unique files on sourceURI"+Environment.NewLine+"Attempting to move them.");
foreach(var file in sourceFileList)
{
try
{
CopyFile(file.fName, sourceURI, sourceUser, sourcePass, targetURI, targetUser, targetPass);
}
catch
{
Console.WriteLine("There was move error with : "+file.fName);
}
}
}
public class FileName : IComparable<FileName>
{
public string fName { get; set; }
public int CompareTo(FileName other)
{
return fName.CompareTo(other.fName);
}
}
public static void CheckLists(List<FileName> sourceFileList, List<FileName> targetFileList)
{
for (int i = 0; i < sourceFileList.Count;i++ )
{
if (targetFileList.BinarySearch(sourceFileList[i]) > 0)
{
sourceFileList.RemoveAt(i);
i--;
}
}
}
public static void getFileLists(string sourceURI, string sourceUser, string sourcePass, List<FileName> sourceFileList,string targetURI, string targetUser, string targetPass, List<FileName> targetFileList)
{
string line = "";
/////////Source FileList
FtpWebRequest sourceRequest;
sourceRequest = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sourceURI);
sourceRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(sourceUser, sourcePass);
sourceRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;
sourceRequest.UseBinary = true;
sourceRequest.KeepAlive = false;
sourceRequest.Timeout = -1;
sourceRequest.UsePassive = true;
FtpWebResponse sourceRespone = (FtpWebResponse)sourceRequest.GetResponse();
//Creates a list(fileList) of the file names
using (Stream responseStream = sourceRespone.GetResponseStream())
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
{
line = reader.ReadLine();
while (line != null)
{
var fileName = new FileName
{
fName = line
};
sourceFileList.Add(fileName);
line = reader.ReadLine();
}
}
}
/////////////Target FileList
FtpWebRequest targetRequest;
targetRequest = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(targetURI);
targetRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(targetUser, targetPass);
targetRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;
targetRequest.UseBinary = true;
targetRequest.KeepAlive = false;
targetRequest.Timeout = -1;
targetRequest.UsePassive = true;
FtpWebResponse targetResponse = (FtpWebResponse)targetRequest.GetResponse();
//Creates a list(fileList) of the file names
using (Stream responseStream = targetResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
{
line = reader.ReadLine();
while (line != null)
{
var fileName = new FileName
{
fName = line
};
targetFileList.Add(fileName);
line = reader.ReadLine();
}
}
}
}
public static void CopyFile(string fileName, string sourceURI, string sourceUser, string sourcePass,string targetURI, string targetUser, string targetPass )
{
try
{
FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sourceURI + fileName);
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(sourceUser, sourcePass);
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
Upload(fileName, ToByteArray(responseStream),targetURI,targetUser, targetPass);
responseStream.Close();
}
catch
{
Console.WriteLine("There was an error with :" + fileName);
}
}
public static Byte[] ToByteArray(Stream stream)
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
byte[] chunk = new byte[4096];
int bytesRead;
while ((bytesRead = stream.Read(chunk, 0, chunk.Length)) > 0)
{
ms.Write(chunk, 0, bytesRead);
}
return ms.ToArray();
}
public static bool Upload(string FileName, byte[] Image, string targetURI,string targetUser, string targetPass)
{
try
{
FtpWebRequest clsRequest = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(targetURI+FileName);
clsRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(targetUser, targetPass);
clsRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
Stream clsStream = clsRequest.GetRequestStream();
clsStream.Write(Image, 0, Image.Length);
clsStream.Close();
clsStream.Dispose();
return true;
}
catch
{
return false;
}
}
}
}
You may run into issues if you are using things that have special encoding, like text documents. That can be changed by the way the upload function is used. If you're doing text files, use:
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(responseStream)
instead of
ToByteArray(responseStream)
You could do a simple extension check of your file before executing the upload.
