Value

a System.IO.Stream

Remarks

The stream returned is a seekable stream. Because of this the whole stream lives in memory for the duration of the request.

The runtime puts a cap on the size of the maximum upload to avoid possible denials of service, this is configured in the <system.web> section of the machine config or the per-application web.config file in the <httpRuntime> subsection with the attribute "maxRequestLength", a value expressed in kilobytes.

The stream is created on the first access to this property. Module authors and IHttpHandler developers can work around this by using the ServiceProvider.GetService(Type) method from the System.Web.HttpContext passing a System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest to get direct access to the input data.

Requirements

Namespace: System.Web
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0