>>Yes, you can return the data as a byte array and it will encode on the wire. On the other hand you can pick up the byte array and either write it to disk or creaet a stream from it...
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>>Note though that there's overhead in this as the data is base64 encoded, so it'll likely double in size.
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>thanks Rick, so for a file size in the 500k average size which pops to a meg per file, is it better to go via an FTP layer instead?
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>This is a product catalouge that will have nag update reminders on a quarterly basis. In an update there may be a need to push out 3 or 5 new pdf "bulletins" that the company has created. Overall I figure that there will be 300 to 500 users around the world and 90% will be in broadband and remainder in dialup.
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>Thanks for the reply.


Hey Stephen,

I think ftp is a more reliable protocol because http doesn't have any error checking.