Question

I want to process a file coming from a post request.
The file looks like this:
first line: text1
second line: empty line
third line: text2
an example:

”
asdasdasd1

asdasdasd2
“

so far i processed the file like this:

byte[] data = Request.BinaryRead(Request.TotalBytes);

String processedfile = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data);

But this was i lose the page breaks and the whole string becomes 1 line instead of 3.

How can i process the resquest where at the end i can keep the page breaks?

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,

Zoli

Answer 1

Since you’re not using an HTML upload control on the page (which would preserve the entire file without issue) – my guess is that the significant whitespace in your ‘file’, isn’t percent-encoded (or URL encoded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding) and so is getting dropped.

Your client needs to URL encode the file contents otherwise stuff like spaces, tabs, etc will most likely be lost.