Reading a PDF from web page using URL (.NET)

[jpesquibel]

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:

The namespaces:
 
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
 

the script:

//sends the request, converts response to s stream
HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(pdfURL);
HttpWebResponse webResponse = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
Stream reqStr = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
 
//reads the response stream
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader (reqStr,System.Text.Encoding.Unicode);
 
//writes stream to a PDF file
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(savePathPDF, false, System.Text.Encoding.Unicode);
sw.Write(sr.ReadToEnd());
sw.Close();

Hopes this helps.