Hello, I'm having trouble properly reading and decoding binary files (eg MS
Word Doc, Adobe PDF) from a stream created from a Web Response. I have an
application that downloads email attachments from an exchange server and
will then insert them into a database. My problem is while a StreamReader
will read from the produced by a web response the file that comes out the
other end is garbage. I've experimented with creating a binary reader based
on this stream and trying to read in the data as bytes but this is not
working out. Here is the code I have thus far (in breif):
string strSrcURI = this.strRootURI + '/' + this.UserName + '/' +
this.MailBox + '/' + this.messageName + '/' + this.attachments[i];

try

{

extention = this.get_extention( this.attachments[i] );

<snip authentication, this works>

Request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(strSrcURI);

<snip adding credentials>

Request.Method = "GET";

// Set the Translate header.

Request.Headers.Add("Translate","f");

Response = (HttpWebResponse)Request.GetResponse();

//The following lines work, I get my content type and content length
correctly

this.attachment_type[i] = Response.ContentType;

this.attachmet_size[i] = Response.ContentLength;

this.attachment_data[i] = new byte[this.attachmet_size[i]];

//This creates the stream object

ResponseStream = Response.GetResponseStream();

BinaryReader binread = new BinaryReader( ResponseStream, Encoding.UTF8 );

int index = 0;

/********************************************

Here is my problem, my while loop does not execute. Can a

binaryread simply not use the stream created from a

webresponse object?

*********************************************/

while( binread.PeekChar() != -1 )

{

this.attachment_data[i][index++] = binread.ReadByte();

}

binread.Close();

// Clean up.

Response.Close();

ResponseStream.Close();

}//Snip exception handling