HttpStream 2.0.50

HttpStream

This C# project implements randomly accessible stream on HTTP 1.1 transport. Typically, HttpClient provides almost all HTTP features but it just provides us with a way to download a file completely. The implementation take advantage of HTTP 1.1 range access or on fallback case, it uses HTTP/1.0 sequential download anyway.

Source Code

The source code is available at GitHub.

NuGet Package

A prebuilt NuGet package is available: HttpStream.

To install HttpStream, run the following command in the Package Manager Console:

PM> Install-Package HttpStream

Supported Platforms

This module is built against .NET Platform Standard 1.6 (netstandard1.6) and it's compatible with the following platforms:

• .NET Core 1.0
• .NET Framework 4.6.1
• Universal Windows Platform 10.0.16299
• Mono 4.6
• Xamarin.iOS 10.0
• Xamarin.Mac 3.0
• Xamarin.Android 7.0

For more information, see the illustration on Mapping the .NET Platform Standard to platforms - .NET Platform Standard.

Simple Usage

using Espresso3389.HttpStream;

// cache stream
var fs = File.Create("cache.jpg");

// The third parameter, true indicates that the httpStream will close the cache stream.
var uri = new Uri(@"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/150906/2007-01-28%2006.04.05.JPG");
var cacheSize = 1024 * 64;
var httpStream = new HttpStream.HttpStream(uri, fs, true, cacheSize, null);

// RangeDownloaded is called on every incremental download
httpStream.RangeDownloaded += (sender, e) =>
{
  Console.WriteLine("Progress: {0}%", (int)(100 * httpStream.CachedRatio));
};

// The following code actually invokes download whole the file
// You can use BufferedStream to improve I/O performance.
var bmp = await BitmapFactory.DecodeStreamAsync(new BufferedStream(httpStream, cacheSize));

License

The codes/binaries are licensed under MIT License.