Uploading files doesn't work correctly

hi!
since WebClient.UploadFile() always uploads the file into the form named "file", i can't use it. so i made my own function:

Code:

	static private string UploadFile(string url, string path)
		{
			HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

			string boundary = DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString("x");
			byte[] boundary_ = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("\r\n--" + boundary + "\r\n");

			string header = "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"archivo\"; filename=\"" + Path.GetFileName(path) + "\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n";
			byte[] header_ = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(header);

			req.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary;
			req.Method = "POST";
			req.KeepAlive = true;
			req.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
			req.ContentLength = boundary_.Length * 2 + header_.Length + new FileInfo(path).Length;
			Stream stream = req.GetRequestStream();

			stream.Write(boundary_, 0, boundary_.Length);
			stream.Write(header_, 0, header_.Length);

			FileStream file = File.OpenRead(path);
			byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
			int read = 0;
			int prg = 0;
			int count = 0;
			DateTime last = DateTime.Now;

			while ((read = file.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
			{
				try
				{
					stream.Write(buffer, 0, read);
				}
				catch
				{
					SharedFunctions.Error("The server rejected the file at a status of " + SharedFunctions.SizeName(prg) + "/" + SharedFunctions.SizeName(Convert.ToInt32(file.Length)) + ".\nThis could be because the file exceeded the maximum upload file size of the server.");
					stream = null;
					break;
				}
				prg += read;
				count += read;

				int per = prg * 100 / Convert.ToInt32(file.Length);
				prgUpload.Value = per;
				lblUploadProgress.Text = per + " %";
				if ((DateTime.Now - last).Seconds > 0)
				{
					last = DateTime.Now;
					lblUploadSpeed.Text = SharedFunctions.SizeName(count) + "/s";
					lblUploadTimeleft.Text = Convert.ToString(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(Convert.ToDouble((file.Length - prg) / count)));
					count = 0;
				}
				Application.DoEvents();
			}
			file.Close();

			if (stream != null)
			{
				stream.Write(boundary_, 0, boundary_.Length);
				stream.Close();

				WebResponse res = req.GetResponse();
				string ret = res.Headers[HttpResponseHeader.Location];
				res.Close();
				return ret;
			}
			else
			{
				return "";
			}
		}

you see the exception handler? thats where stream.Write() causes an exception "connection was aborted; connection was canceled".
this usually happens to files above ~3 MB.

does anyone know why this keeps happening?
thank you so much!

It is most likely due to the http request size limit. This can be set inside your web.config file if I'm not entirely mistaken.

it doesnt seem to crash at the same size. it's different. when i send 128 kb packages at once instead of 4 kb, it crashes later.

EDIT:

Nevermind. This was ASP, not ASP.NET.

this bug really makes my application worth nothing. every time i upload a file > ~3MB, it crashes.
WebClient.UploadFile() doesn't work, because it allways uploads data to the form "file"...

Originally Posted by Devils Child

this bug really makes my application worth nothing. every time i upload a file > ~3MB, it crashes.
WebClient.UploadFile() doesn't work, because it allways uploads data to the form "file"...

Save and rename?

And I'm pretty sure this has something to do with the maximum request size. I'm almost positive. Let me grab a book I have on ASP.NET 2.0 and look it up.. sec.

Yeah, here we go. Under <system.web> in your web.config, you should try putting the following:

Code:

<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="WhateverSizeYouNeedInKB" executionTimeout="MaxRequestDurationInSeconds"/>

The first param is self-explanatory, and the latter simply sets the max time a request may be processed until it's shut down by the runtime. If you want to be uploading big files, you're going to want to consider the fact that some people have slow connections, in which case the executionTimeout value should be pretty high.

i'm using window forms applications in C#, not asp.

Do you "own" the server? That is, do you know how it's configured? The problem does not appear to be in your code; it appears that the server is terminating the connection for some reason that only it knows, and I would suggest you need to investigate on that end.

i don't own the server, but if you upload the file using firefox, it works!
so it must be my program. i've looked at it with wireshark and i'm the one who cancelles the connection.
the exception "the connection was canceled: the connection was aborted" is thrown.