DAV - Distributed Authoring and Versioning

I am going through the process of Uploading and Deleting Files on a remote webserver. When doing this I needed the ability to take a stream object and save it to a remote server. A bit different than the UploadFile() method on System.Net.WebClient.

It was a bit of a pain, so I figured I'd share it with others in order to save them the trouble.

public static WebResponse UploadFile( Stream _inputStream, NetworkCredential _cred, string _httpAddress )
{
          // setup request
          WebRequest request    = WebRequest.Create( _httpAddress );
          request.Credentials       = _cred;
          request.Method             = "PUT";
          request.ContentLength = _inputStream.Length;
          // create byte array
          byte[] byt = new Byte[ checked( ( uint )Math.Min( 8192, _inputStream.Length ) ) ];
          // setup input/output streams
          Stream outputStream = null;
          try
          {
                    outputStream = request.GetRequestStream();
                    // now write the stream
                    int bytesRead = 0;
                    do
                    {
                              bytesRead = _inputStream.Read( byt, 0, byt.Length );
                              if( 0 == bytesRead ) continue;
                              outputStream.Write( byt, 0 , bytesRead );
                    }
                    while( 0 != bytesRead );
                    return request.GetResponse();
          }
          finally
          {
                    // overkill, but it doesn't hurt.
                    if( null != outputStream )
                    {
                              outputStream.Flush();
                              outputStream.Close();
                              outputStream = null;
                    }
                    // don't bother closing the input stream. we do not own it.
          }
}

public static WebResponse DeleteHttpFile( string _uri, NetworkCredential _cred )
{
          WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create( _uri );
          request.Credentials    = _cred;
          request.Method = "DELETE";
          return request.GetResponse();
}