Reading Image from Web Server in C# proxy

Question

I am trying to write a proxy which reads an image from one server and returns it to the HttpContext supplied, but I am just getting character stream back.

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Answer 1

Since you are working with binary, you don't want to use StreamReader, which is a TextReader!

Now, assuming that you've set the content-type correctly, you should just use the response stream:

const int BUFFER_SIZE = 1024 * 1024;

var req = WebRequest.Create(imageUrl);
using (var resp = req.GetResponse())
{
    using (var stream = resp.GetResponseStream())
    {
        var bytes = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
        while (true)
        {
            var n = stream.Read(bytes, 0, BUFFER_SIZE);
            if (n == 0)
            {
                break;
            }
            context.Response.OutputStream.Write(bytes, 0, n);
        }
    }
}