While developing a Website you might want to limit the users to download the file only once or would like to hide the link if they successfully downloaded a particular file. In traditional way of downloading the file its hard to know on the server side that file is downloaded successfully by the client. Solution is to stream the file in small chunk and make sure that is connected before streaming the next chunk. If you sucessfully transmitted the whiole file then this would mean that client has successfully downloaded the file.
Here is the Code ....
public class DownloadFile : System.Web.UI.Page
{
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.IO.Stream iStream = null;
// Buffer to read 10K bytes in chunk:
byte[] buffer = new Byte[10000];
// Length of the file:
int length;
// Total bytes to read:
long dataToRead;
// Identify the file to download including its path.
string filepath = Request.MapPath("TSDCJan21.sdo");
// Identify the file name.
string filename = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(filepath);
try
{
// Open the file.
iStream = new System.IO.FileStream(filepath, System.IO.FileMode.Open,
System.IO.FileAccess.Read,System.IO.FileShare.Read);
// Total bytes to read:
dataToRead = iStream.Length;
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename);
// Read the bytes.
while (dataToRead > 0)
{
// Verify that the client is connected.
if (Response.IsClientConnected)
{
// Read the data in buffer.
length = iStream.Read(buffer, 0, 10000);
// Write the data to the current output stream.
Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, length);
// Flush the data to the HTML output.
Response.Flush();
buffer= new Byte[10000];
dataToRead = dataToRead - length;
}
else
{
//prevent infinite loop if user disconnects
dataToRead = -1;
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Trap the error, if any.
Response.Write("Error : " + ex.Message);
}
finally
{
if (iStream != null)
{
//Close the file.
iStream.Close();
}
}
}
}