Hello all,
This isn't rocket science to most, but I had a hard time figuring out how to read a PDF via URL and saving it to disk. You can use the PDFBox dll for this, but for those who want to use pure .NET, here's some code:
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The namespaces:
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using System.Text;
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using System.IO;
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the script:
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//sends the request, converts response to s stream
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HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(pdfURL);
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HttpWebResponse webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
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Stream reqStr = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
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//reads the response stream
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StreamReader sr = new StreamReader (reqStr,System.Text.Encoding.Unicode);
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//writes stream to a PDF file
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StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(savePathPDF, false, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode);
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sw.Write(sr.ReadToEnd());
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sw.Close();
Hopes this helps.
