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Hi all,

I am trying to use WebDAV to allow users to select emails from their Inbox
to be saved to a location on disk, including the email's attachments (if any).

To do this I generate a list of the emails via a WebDAV SEARCH query
(returns sender, subject, date and href), and then allow the users to select
which emails should be moved, then finally click a button to move.

I would like to grab the emails in EML format, with the attachments MIME
encoded within the file, but am not sure how to do this with WebDAV - I guess
it would be fairly straight forward seeing as I have the href.

Could someone explain how to do this, or let me know if there is a better
way to do this.

Many thanks,
Nigel

Hello,

just do a GET on the href and add the header "Tranlate: f" to the request.

Greetings,
Henning Krause

Hi, I have tried to do this with the following function, but it seems to
fail, with the responseStream.Length = "<error: an exception of type:
{System.NotSupportedException} occured>". Am I doing something silly in my
function????
------- code snippet -------
private Stream GetWebDAVResource(string resourceUri)
{
//Parameters
HttpWebRequest request;
WebResponse response = null;
Stream responseStream = null;
CookieCollection cookies = null;

try
{
//if SSL is enabled on the exchange server, make
//sure all ssl certificates are accepted
if( usingSSL )
System.Net.ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = new SSLHandler();

//Create the HttpWebRequest object.
request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(resourceUri);

////Set common properties
request.Timeout = 600000;
request.ContentType = "text/xml";

CredentialCache credentials = new CredentialCache();
credentials.Add(new Uri(uriToGet), "NTLM", new NetworkCredential(username,
password, domain));
request.Credentials = credentials;

//Specify the method.
request.Method = "GET";

//Set the Translate header.
request.Headers.Add("Translate","f");

//Get the response from the server.
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

//Get XML response stream
responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();

// Clean up.
response.Close();
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
AddErrorMessage(ex.ToString());
}

return(responseStream);
}

------- end snippet -------

Many thanks,

Nigel W

You code snippet looks basically that same as some working code that we
have, the only difference being that our code does not have:

////Set common properties
request.Timeout = 600000;
request.ContentType = "text/xml";

Also, we are using a BinaryReader to process the ResponseStream that we
get back.

Wish I could be more help.

Tom Delany

got it working now - Many thanks ;-)

Nigel