File transfer problems

My problem is this. I want to download a file from the webbserver and save it to a local client. And i the work flow is like this. After the user has register his customer data, he reicive an email with a link to the file on the server and then the dowload starts. I don´t have any idea of how to do this :-( Could anyone give me some idea´s or example of how to do this or some other way to do this Sorry for my poor english

I would recommend a different means of notification than email. For email, the user must manually extract the link text from their email client and paste it into your application and click a button to start the download, or your program has to be configured to talk to a mail client with a unique user account for that user. Both are a hassle. Why not use a web application that sends a document of Content-Type "text/plain" with the URL in it when the download is ready, and "PLEASE WAIT" before that? The client application could easily check the web URL every 10 seconds or so. I pretty much ripped this code right off the the Visual Studio help example. I tested it with a text/plain response that I have on my server and it works. private void button10_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://distestfs1/scripts1/bdisws.dll/servertest"); WebResponse response = request.GetResponse(); Stream s = response.GetResponseStream(); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s); string output = ""; char[] c = new char[256]; string tempstring= ""; int count = sr.Read(c, 0, 256); while (count > 0) { tempstring = new string(c, 0, count); output = output + tempstring; count = sr.Read(c, 0, 256); } txtBox1.Text = output; response.Close(); } }

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spgilmore22y ago
I would recommend a different means of notification than email. For email, the user must manually extract the link text from their email client and paste it into your application and click a button to start the download, or your program has to be configured to talk to a mail client with a unique user account for that user. Both are a hassle. Why not use a web application that sends a document of Content-Type "text/plain" with the URL in it when the download is ready, and "PLEASE WAIT" before that? The client application could easily check the web URL every 10 seconds or so. I pretty much ripped this code right off the the Visual Studio help example. I tested it with a text/plain response that I have on my server and it works. private void button10_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://distestfs1/scripts1/bdisws.dll/servertest"); WebResponse response = request.GetResponse(); Stream s = response.GetResponseStream(); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(s); string output = ""; char[] c = new char[256]; string tempstring= ""; int count = sr.Read(c, 0, 256); while (count > 0) { tempstring = new string(c, 0, count); output = output + tempstring; count = sr.Read(c, 0, 256); } txtBox1.Text = output; response.Close(); } }