When we want to serve a file (non HTML) from an action we can use the File Action Result. The contructor can accept either a byte[] or a Stream. Which one is better? Why?
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When we want to serve a file (non HTML) from an action we can use the File Action Result. The contructor can accept either a byte[] or a Stream. Which one is better? Why?
Thanks!
I would use a stream and I would try hard to stream data down to the client without ever load all data into a
byte[]on the web server.This is the only way you are sure you do not load files completely in the server memory, imagine 10 people downloading files of 100 Mb each, better to avoid the ASP.NET process to grow to 1GB RAM only because of that, with streaming you can do this 🙂