Hi, I have studied the WebBrowser documentation but I have not found this... is it possible to get the byte stream from downloading in eo.WebBrowser?

Thus, instead of that a user's download action shows a file picker dialogue to point out where the file is to be locally stored on disk, I want the file contents' byte stream to be sent to my own local .Net code, preferably without intermediate disk storage.

The reason is that we have high secrecy customers that do not want files ending up laying around on PC:s' C-disks etc. Instead, my idea is to build a specific "web browser" for them to install, that automatically sends to file contents to our safe service in a REST call.

This will also be more user-friendly since the users do not need to first download to disk and then upload to our web application.

Another reason for this need is that these customers use standard applications that expose no API:s for acquiring a file, only web file download.

(I am aware that Chromium might use local file caching, but these web applications set cache rules so that the risk of remaining files is low.)

Best regards
Sven

Thanks for the answer!

Too bad. OK, if I accept that the file gets downloaded to intermediate disk storage for a short while, would this work:

1. It seems as if I can intercept the "Save as" dialogue and create a temporary guid file name etc for the download to happen, without the user seeing any disturbing dialogues.

2. Is there some sort of after-download-event etc? There I could (in local .Net code) read the disk file and send it via REST to us, and then directly delete the file from local disk.
(There is of course a tiny risk that the program or PC crashes etc so that the file remains on disk, but it would be much, much better than today's manual-download-and-upload-to-us.)

3. Then we could show some message to the user that the file is safely sent to our service.

/Sven

Thank you, excellent.

Now, we have about the same problem but in the other direction: Automatically uploading files TO the standard application, since we have no power over that web application, and it does not include any API:s.

However, I don't seem to find any UploadItem class comparable to DownloadItem.

I can see that I could intercept the FileDialog, so I guess that in .Net code I could call our API to get the file contents, save the file temporarily to disk and specify that filename in FileDialogEventArgs's Continue.

But for the aforementioned reasons I then would very much like to delete the temporary file once the upload is completed. Is there any event for that?

I guess one problem could be that we don't know if the standard web application uses normal upload or some AJAX type of upload, that maybe those work differently...

Thank you!

I agree, malicious use of this scenario could be possible.

If we would do this, we would have to package it in a small application that our customers' IT department trusts and installs in these client machines. So it should not be something that these users are supposed to get themselves somewhere on the Internet and install.