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c#email-attachments
Jay
Jay

Reputation: 1039

'The given path's format is not supported' when attaching with email

I am trying to attach some pdf document when sending email but I get above error when I try to attach.

code I am using is: 

Attachment a = new Attachment("External_path", MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet);

External_Path points to pdf on external website and can confirm it exists. I have also tried chaing MediaTypeNames to 'MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf' but that didn't work either.

Has someone experienced same problem while attaching attachments to an email?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 891

Answers (1)

DrKoch
DrKoch

Reputation: 9772

The documentation of Attachment says, the constructor must be called with a file path. What you use is an URL.

You must download the document to a local (temporary) file and read it from there.

Upvotes: 1

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