// server side site suck / spidery thing to grab a remote image and save it locally
public static string DownloadImageFromRemoteSiteAndSaveToDisk(string fullImageUrl)
{
var folderName = "Attachments\\RemoteImages\\" + Fmt.YearMonth(DateTime.Today) + "\\";
var path = folderName +
FileSystem.GetUniqueFilename(folderName,
fullImageUrl.Replace("/", "\\").Substring(fullImageUrl.LastIndexOf("/")));
FileSystem.CreateFolder(Web.MapPath("~\\" + folderName));
byte[] imageBytes;
HttpWebRequest imageRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(fullImageUrl);
WebResponse imageResponse = imageRequest.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = imageResponse.GetResponseStream();
using (BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(responseStream)) {
//imageBytes = br.ReadBytes(500000); //jn replaced this
const int bufferSize = 4096;
using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) {
byte[] buffer = new byte[bufferSize];
int count;
while ((count = br.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) != 0)
{
ms.Write(buffer, 0, count);
}
imageBytes = ms.ToArray();
}
br.Close();
}
responseStream.Close();
imageResponse.Close();
FileStream fs = new FileStream(Web.MapPath("~\\" + path), FileMode.Create);
BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs);
try {
bw.Write(imageBytes);
} finally {
fs.Close();
bw.Close();
}
var result = Web.BaseUrl + path.Replace("\\", "/");
return(result);
}
