Illegal characters in path

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Hello,

I have written this code it is giving error "Illegal characters in path."

C#

WebClient client = new WebClient();
            string Path = @"111.11.111.111:111\abc\abc\abc\";            
            Byte[] buffer = client.DownloadData(Path + lblresult.Text);
            Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
            Response.AddHeader("content-length", buffer.Length.ToString());
            Response.BinaryWrite(buffer);

please Help..............

Posted 29-Sep-14 21:17pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-09-29T21:30:00

Solution 2

Member 11014751 wrote:

Folder is on server and i want to access that... and that is a IP address...

I repeat once again: ':' is and invalid character for path.

Here is your problem: don't mix up URI scheme with other elements of URI, learn what part is what:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator[^].

Last referenced article contains allowed characters.

—SA

Posted 29-Sep-14 21:30pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Member 11014751 30-Sep-14 5:25am

Please guide me what do i write in replace of this line :
string Path = @"111.11.111.111:111\abc\abc\abc\";

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Sep-14 9:51am

I have no idea what is that, but it should be prefixed with URI schema:
http://
ftp://
And it's '/', not '\'
—SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2014-09-29T21:22:00

Solution 1

Illegal character is ':'. After all, learn what characters are valid and what not!

—SA

Posted 29-Sep-14 21:22pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Member 11014751 30-Sep-14 3:24am

Folder is on server and i want to access that... and that is a IP address ..

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Sep-14 3:31am

See Solution 2. And — read!
—SA