Uploading files to FTP are corrupted once in destination

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I'm creating a simple drag-file-and-upload-automatically-to-ftp windows application and I'm using the MSDN code to upload the file to the FTP. The code is pretty straight forward: ``` // Get the object used to communicate with the server. FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(String.Format("{0}{1}", FTP_PATH, filenameToUpload)); request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile; // Options request.UseBinary = true; request.UsePassive = false; // FTP Credentials request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(FTP_USR, FTP_PWD); // Copy the contents of the file to the request stream. StreamReader sourceStream = new StreamReader(fileToUpload.FullName); byte[] fileContents = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sourceStream.ReadToEnd()); sourceStream.Close(); request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length; Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream(); requestStream.Write(fileContents, 0, fileContents.Length); requestStream.Close(); FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetR…

Accepted Answer

You shouldn't use a StreamReader but only a Stream to read binary files.

Streamreader is designed to read text files only.

Try with this :

```
private static void up(string sourceFile, string targetFile)
{            
    try
    {
        string ftpServerIP = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ftpIP"];
        string ftpUserID = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ftpUser"];
        string ftpPassword = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ftpPass"];
        ////string ftpURI = "";
        string filename = "ftp://" + ftpServerIP + "//" + targetFile; 
        FtpWebRequest ftpReq = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(filename);
        ftpReq.UseBinary = true;
        ftpReq.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;
        ftpReq.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpUserID, ftpPassword);

byte[] b = File.ReadAllBytes(sourceFile);

ftpReq.ContentLength = b.Length;
        using (Stream s = ftpReq.GetRequestStream())
        {
            s.Write(b, 0, b.Length);
        }

FtpWebResponse ftpResp = (FtpWebResponse)ftpReq.GetResponse();

if (ftpResp != null)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ftpResp.StatusDescription);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString());
    }
}
```

Uploading files to FTP are corrupted once in destination

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