To post files as from byte arrays:
private static string UploadFilesToRemoteUrl(string url, IList<byte[]> files, NameValueCollection nvc) {
string boundary = "----------------------------" + DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString("x");
var request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url);
request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary;
request.Method = "POST";
request.KeepAlive = true;
var postQueue = new ByteArrayCustomQueue();
var formdataTemplate = "\r\n--" + boundary + "\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\";\r\n\r\n{1}";
foreach (string key in nvc.Keys) {
var formitem = string.Format(formdataTemplate, key, nvc[key]);
var formitembytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(formitem);
postQueue.Write(formitembytes);
}
var headerTemplate = "\r\n--" + boundary + "\r\n" +
"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"{0}\"; filename=\"{1}\"\r\n" +
"Content-Type: application/zip\r\n\r\n";
var i = 0;
foreach (var file in files) {
var header = string.Format(headerTemplate, "file" + i, "file" + i + ".zip");
var headerbytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(header);
postQueue.Write(headerbytes);
postQueue.Write(file);
i++;
}
postQueue.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("\r\n--" + boundary + "--"));
request.ContentLength = postQueue.Length;
using (var requestStream = request.GetRequestStream()) {
postQueue.CopyToStream(requestStream);
requestStream.Close();
}
var webResponse2 = request.GetResponse();
using (var stream2 = webResponse2.GetResponseStream())
using (var reader2 = new StreamReader(stream2)) {
var res = reader2.ReadToEnd();
webResponse2.Close();
return res;
}
}
public class ByteArrayCustomQueue {
private LinkedList<byte[]> arrays = new LinkedList<byte[]>();
/// <summary>
/// Writes the specified data.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="data">The data.</param>
public void Write(byte[] data) {
arrays.AddLast(data);
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the length.
/// </summary>
/// <value>
/// The length.
/// </value>
public int Length { get { return arrays.Sum(x => x.Length); } }
/// <summary>
/// Copies to stream.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="requestStream">The request stream.</param>
/// <exception cref="System.NotImplementedException"></exception>
public void CopyToStream(Stream requestStream) {
foreach (var array in arrays) {
requestStream.Write(array, 0, array.Length);
}
}
}