Download a File
Applies To: Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Retrieves the binary content of a file, in bytes.
URI Template
GET services/builtin/FileContentAccessService.svc/filecontent?path={path}
{path}
A network path that begins with the server name, in the format /ServerName/FolderPath/FileName.
Sample Request
GET https://www.contoso.com/services/builtin/FileContentAccessService.svc/filecontent?path=servername/Company/1.cs HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/xml
Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=********************
Canary: *********************
Host: domainname
Range:
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 28675
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "FakeStrongETAG"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="1.cs"
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:42:33 GMT
<file content>
Error Codes
| Error Code | Error Message |
|---|---|
| 400 | The path is too long or has unsupported characters (such as *\|"<>). |
| 401 | Access is denied to the requested resource. |
| 404 | The path does not exist. |
Remarks
The caller is supposed to read the response stream. The method supports the retrieval of partial content of the file, in which the range of the file is specified by the Range header field in the HTTP request.