FTP compress download

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Dear sir, How to compress a file before downloading from ftp to local using .net. Please help me about this

Jeeva Subburaj · Answer

Its not possible to compress directly from FTP server while downloading. What kind of application are you developing? Is it web based app or windows desktop app? if its web based app, my first approach would work fine. you can have batch schedule to download once from FTP server to server and compress it and whenever client is requsted , download it from server directly.

arupa jena · Answer

Hi Jeevannatham, Thanks for your reply, But what is the benift if i download file from FTP to server and again put it into ZIP file inside server then download to client. Any how downloading bandwidth will not reduce if we do like this. Is there any way where we can compress file before downloading in .Net from FTP. Bcoz in MS official site it is saying its not possible.

Jeeva Subburaj · Answer

One way to achive it to download the file into server from FTP first and then zip the file using ZipFile Class and download it to client side. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.compression.zipfile?view=netframework-4.8

FTP compress download

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