I'm trying to automatically download a large zip file once a week. So far i've managed to check if a new file is uploaded and I'm ready to start the download, but I'm running in to a few problems. The file I'm downloading is above 2.2 GB (Zip), so it's a pretty big file, and each time I test a new peace of code, I need to wait 5-10 min for the file to download again. I have a more complicated code at the bottom, and a simple code here first. Both result in the same error once the last few bytes are being transferred.
Try
My.Computer.Network.DownloadFile(
"ftp://dmr-ftp-user:[email protected]/ESStatistikListeModtag/ESStatistikListeModtag-20160110-093818.zip",
"C:\ZipDownload\Test.zip")
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try
Yes, this is the actual login information to the ftp host, so if you want to test your code before posting a possible solution - feel free. Once the file is just about to finish downloading i get this exception:
Exception: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
I've also tried this slightly more complicated version I found online:
Private Sub Download(ByVal filePath As String, ByVal fileName As String)
FTPSettings.IP = "5.44.137.84"
FTPSettings.UserID = "dmr-ftp-user"
FTPSettings.Password = "dmrpassword"
Dim reqFTP As FtpWebRequest = Nothing
Dim ftpStream As Stream = Nothing
Try
Dim outputStream As New FileStream(filePath + "\" + fileName, FileMode.Create)
reqFTP = DirectCast(FtpWebRequest.Create(New Uri("ftp://" + FTPSettings.IP + "/" + fileName)), FtpWebRequest)
reqFTP.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile
reqFTP.UseBinary = True
reqFTP.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(FTPSettings.UserID, FTPSettings.Password)
Dim response As FtpWebResponse = DirectCast(reqFTP.GetResponse(), FtpWebResponse)
ftpStream = response.GetResponseStream()
Dim cl As Long = response.ContentLength
Dim bufferSize As Integer = 2048
Dim readCount As Integer
Dim buffer As Byte() = New Byte(bufferSize - 1) {}
Dim size As Int64
readCount = ftpStream.Read(buffer, 0, bufferSize)
While readCount > 0
outputStream.Write(buffer, 0, readCount)
readCount = ftpStream.Read(buffer, 0, bufferSize)
If readCount = bufferSize Then
size += readCount
Label1.Text = size
Label1.Refresh()
End If
End While
ftpStream.Close()
outputStream.Close()
response.Close()
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
If ftpStream IsNot Nothing Then
ftpStream.Close()
ftpStream.Dispose()
End If
Throw New Exception(ex.Message.ToString())
End Try
End Sub
Public NotInheritable Class FTPSettings
Private Sub New()
End Sub
Public Shared Property IP() As String
Get
Return m_IP
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
m_IP = value
End Set
End Property
Private Shared m_IP As String
Public Shared Property UserID() As String
Get
Return m_UserID
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
m_UserID = value
End Set
End Property
Private Shared m_UserID As String
Public Shared Property Password() As String
Get
Return m_Password
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
m_Password = value
End Set
End Property
Private Shared m_Password As String
End Class
End Class
Both of these solutions seem to work just fine, and I can follow the file size increase on my test folder, until the very end where it freezes for a few seconds and then return the same exception:
Exception: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
Hope you have an explanation to this problem!