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Dez Hood
Dez Hood

Reputation: 221

trying to FTP a file with a special character

I have the code:

FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
request.UseBinary = true;   // Binary mode when downloading
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(user, password);
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

I always get the error: "The requested URI is invalid for this FTP command".

The problem is the url contains a "#". Since I can't stop people from creating that type of file, is there a way I can escape special characters and still process the file?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5468

Answers (2)

satnhak
satnhak

Reputation: 9891

You can use HttpUtility.UrlEncode to encode the special characters.

Upvotes: 3

Jean-Bernard Pellerin
Jean-Bernard Pellerin

Reputation: 12680

Do a string replace with "#" ->"%23"
URL encodings shouldn't contain a hash because:

Some characters present the possibility of being misunderstood within URLs for various reasons. These characters should also always be encoded.

Upvotes: 7

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