Get Bytes Sent to Page

[Slonoma]

Hi All,
I am trying to retrieve the bytes sent to a page (probably use a BinaryReader). What is the easiest way to do this? I'm assuming there is some property in the Page object in which I can read from - but I don't know where to find it. I am using VS2005 .NET 2.0 C#.

Thanks!
Slo-No

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[ca8msm]

I am trying to retrieve the bytes sent to a page

What are your reasons for this (i.e. what are you actually trying to do)?


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[Slonoma]

You had to ask....

We have dynamic PDFs being rendered in a page. The user will enter/change data in the PDF fields. When the user clicks the 'Submit' button on the PDF page itself, the PDF is sending itself as a byte array to the specified page.

And that is where I stand - trying to figure out how to read in this byte array so it can be saved to the database/data extracted from the stream, etc.

Easy stuff, huh?

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[ca8msm]

lol - I wish I hadn't!

So can you actually get a reference to the byte array or is that still where you are having problems?


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[Slonoma]

Once I get a reference to it I should be fine, I have been working with reading and writing these PDFs as BinaryStreams from files and databases(cool stuff, I might add).
So now I just need to know how to reference the byte array being sent to the page.

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[Slonoma]

I was able to find this object: Request.InputStream.

Thanks for your help guys!

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[Slonoma]

Thought I should throw the quick and easy code in there, so here you go:

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        byte[] rawPDF = new byte[Request.InputStream.Length];
        string path = @"C:/testPDF.pdf";
        FileStream textFilestream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write);

        using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(Request.InputStream))
        {
            rawPDF = br.ReadBytes((int)Request.InputStream.Length);
            using (BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(textFilestream))
            {
                bw.Write(rawPDF);
                bw.Close();
            }

            br.Close();
        }

    }

The trouble with programmers is that they get high on their own supply. -Dimandja