Downloading file and handling response to client

[mcowen]

Hello,

A couple of questions....

If I make a request to a aspx page and in that page I download a file from a URL, is it possible to pass that file back in the response to the client without saving it to disk on the web server?

If I make a request to an ASPX page can I cancel the response...I do not want a file to be returned at all HTML or otherwise?

TIA

Matt

 

[ca8msm]

If I make a request to a aspx page and in that page I download a file from a URL, is it possible to pass that file back in the response to the client without saving it to disk on the web server?

If the file you have downloaded is in a stream, you can write that stream directly to the client without saving it first. Is that what you mean?

If I make a request to an ASPX page can I cancel the response...I do not want a file to be returned at all HTML or otherwise?

I don't understand. If you've made a request to a page, why would you suddenly need to have not made the request? Why make it in the first place?


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[mcowen]

That's exactly what I want yes. I shall have a go then.

Good point well made. Unfortunately, I'm working with some legacy software that has a file download function that does not allow you to test the type of file. So every request over http would provide a file and I want a PDF only. I thought to use aspx to check the content type. I think it's best if I do a comparison on the file size.

Thanks very much.

Matt