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Asked: 2026-05-27T09:02:01+00:00

In a server / client environment, I need to send a plain text file

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In a server / client environment, I need to send a plain text file over the HTTP protocol.

Typical scenario:
A client joins the server, and the server sends a string telling the client a url to download a text file. The URL would be:

“IP:PORT/folder/folder/file.txt” (where ‘IP’ and ‘PORT’ are actual
IP’s and Ports IE: 127.0.0.1:1234)

I need the server to allow a connection to the files location, and the files location alone.
The client is closed source, and so I have no control over its code. It should act like a HTTP server, but only for that file, or at least the subfolder. You should be able to type in the URL into a browsers address and read the contents of the file.

What’s the best way of doing this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The easiest way would be to use the HttpListener class.

    The documentation contains an example which shows you how to set up the listener and receive a request, but it does not directly cover how to check what file was requested and how to feed that file back to the client. However, both are easy to do and would not take a lot of code.

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