How to read/write file on server using HTTP protocol from windows form application?

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I have a windows form application which saves the log in a text or HTML format. I want to save this log to a server located at some place via HTTP.

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I have a site say www.abc.com and I have a windows form application at my client side from which I am accessing www.abc.com using browser control of .net and
now I want to save some page or want to create some file say text.xml file on this server(www.abc.com where the site is located) and write some information to that file in some directory.How can I achieve this.

I dont know If any other method is there. But could you please help me with feasible solution. Note I do not have a network access to this system.

Posted 5-Nov-14 21:32pm

VipinKumar Maurya

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Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 1 · 2014-11-05T22:08:00

One of the straight forward (and not recommended) way is to configure the read/write permission on a folder within IIS.

https://www.webwiz.co.uk/kb/asp-tutorials/server-permissions.htm

However, what I would recommend to is to build a web service (ASMX, Web API etc.) on your web server to support read and write operations.

What you would do it then just pass the binary data to this web service and it will make sure to write the file on a specific location on server.

There are enough examples of this on internet. For e.g.:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16175004/how-to-read-a-text-file-with-a-web-service