What is the best practice about rewinding streams?

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Published on 2010-04-05T08:43:36Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 8:53 UTC
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I've done the same mistake lots of times:

I've tried to use a Stream that is positioned in the end, consequently returning nothing.

When and how is the best way to rewind the Stream (setting the Position to 0) after "loading" it?

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