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Yuki Kutsuya
Yuki Kutsuya

Reputation: 4088

Downloading a file from a PHP page in C#

Okay, we have a PHP script that creates an download link from a file and we want to download that file via C#. This works fine with progress etc but when the PHP page gives an error the program downloads the error page and saves it as the requested file. Here is the code we have atm:

PHP Code:

<?php
$path = 'upload/test.rar';

    if (file_exists($path)) {
        $mm_type="application/octet-stream";
        header("Pragma: public");
        header("Expires: 0");
        header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
        header("Cache-Control: public");
        header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
        header("Content-Type: " . $mm_type);
        header("Content-Length: " .(string)(filesize($path)) );
        header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.basename($path).'"');
        header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n");
        readfile($path); 
        exit();
    } 
    else {
    print 'Sorry, we could not find requested download file.';
    }
?>

C# Code:

private void btnDownload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string url = "http://***.com/download.php";
        WebClient client = new WebClient();
        client.DownloadFileCompleted += new AsyncCompletedEventHandler(client_DownloadFileCompleted);
        client.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(ProgressChanged);
        client.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(url), @"c:\temp\test.rar");
    }

    private void ProgressChanged(object sender, DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        progressBar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
    }

    void client_DownloadFileCompleted(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
            MessageBox.Show(print);
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2768

Answers (2)

emartel
emartel

Reputation: 7773

Instead of printing an error message, you should use the Header function in PHP documented here. 

header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." 404 Not Found", true, 404);

Due to the nature of your Async call, no WebException is thrown. On your DownloadFileCompleted callback, you can check 

if(e.Error != null)

Your e.Error will contain a line similar to "The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.".

Upvotes: 1

Darren Reid
Darren Reid

Reputation: 2322

You need to inform the webclient that an error as occurred by setting headers just like you have when a successful download is happening. I'm not very familiar with PHP, but found a 401 example 

header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized', true, 401);

from here

Upvotes: 1

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