Question

I want to transfer XML from client to some server using FTP. What I get is the XmlElement object. I know that I can create the File and upload it to appropriate location (FTP).

However, I think it’s better to create File in memory (to avoid file saving on the local disk).

Can someone guide me how can i achieve this?

I am using C# 4.0.

Answer 1

You can use FtpWebRequest.GetRequestStream() to write directly to the request stream without first saving the file on disk

Retrieves the stream used to upload data to an FTP server.

XmlElement.OuterXml returns a String representation of the XmlElement.

string xml = myXmlElement.OuterXml;
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml);
Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
requestStream.Close();