Opening remote binary document

[tjw2006]

I've managed to get ASP.NET to open a local pdf document directly to the browser using the code below. However, I'm trying to do the same thing with a pdf document on my local file system (i.e. C:\test\acrobat.pdf), but I keep getting an error saying that the file does not exist. ASP.NET, IIS and my own login have full permissions to this directory, but when I assign "C:\test\acrobat.pdf" to the 'FilePath' variable, I'm getting the error that the file does not exist. Has anyone got any experience of doing this?

Thanks

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
'Get the physical path to the file.
Dim FilePath As String = MapPath("acrobat.pdf")

'Set the appropriate ContentType.
Response.ContentType = "Application/pdf"

'Write the file directly to the HTTP content output stream.
Response.WriteFile(FilePath)
Response.[End]()
End Sub

 

[jmeckley]

correct. the server cannot access the client machine. Ideally you do not want the web application reaching out to other points on the network.

if you want to open a pdf document on the client machine you need have the user upload the file to the server.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.