Error “This stream does not support seek operations” in C#

Question

I\'m trying to get an image from an url using a byte stream. But i get this error message:

This stream does not support seek operations.<

Answer 1

Perhaps you should use the System.Net.WebClient API. If already using client.OpenRead(url) use client.DownloadData(url)

var client = new System.Net.WebClient();
byte[] buffer = client.DownloadData(url);
using (var stream = new MemoryStream(buffer))
{
    ... your code using the stream ...
}

Obviously this downloads everything before the Stream is created, so it may defeat the purpose of using a Stream. webClient.DownloadData("https://your.url") gets a byte array which you can then turn into a MemoryStream.