Question

I am trying to connect to an FTP server to upload a file. I am getting the ”
Unable to connect” error. If I use command line and open an FTP connection, I am able to connect. Not sure why I get error when connecting programatically. Any help will surely be appreciated.

 FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://1.23.84.2");
 request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;                   

 request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user","password");

 // Copy the contents of the file to the request stream.    
 StreamReader sourceStream = new StreamReader(path);
 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.GetResponse();

 Console.WriteLine("Upload File Complete, status {0}", 
          response.StatusDescription);

 response.Close();

Answer 1

So after a few hours of trouble shooting, It was McAfee blocking the ftp port. had to temporarily disable the services on a local machine.