stuck with WebRequest

[Evgeni57]

I'm running the following code:

   StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        byte\[\] buf = new byte\[131072\];
        string url = null;
        url = "http://google.com";
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        if (request.HaveResponse)
        {
            Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
            string tempString = null;
            int count = 0;
            do
            {
                count = resStream.Read(buf, 0, buf.Length);
                if (count != 0)
                {
                    tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf, 0, count);
                    sb.Append(tempString);
                }
            } while (count > 0);
        }
        richTextBox1.Text = sb.ToString();

and after code executed richTextBox1.Text contains the same code as I can see if I open in browser url and click on "view source". But not always. There are some urls, that I can see server's replay in browser, and see html code in "view source", but richTextBox1.Text contains junk. May be there is some problem with page encoding or something? Thanks.

[Mark Salsbery]

What happens if you code your response stream handling as shown in the example here[^] ? Mark

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[Evgeni57]

That is what: Took the code from msdn page, compiled and here is what we have for the first itteration of the while loop: in 'url', type string, variable: http://capitalcity.combats.com/inf.pl?1183463649 in 'str' variable: "�\b\0\0\0\0\0\0��[[s�F�~^���6$#�ąw��*�y7N\\�3����\t8\0(Y������/�h;���Q��le� J�!��y�JkO7�;eɒ�Q�2��>���9}Nw;�x��y_vqa�\n�������;����:F�L��V��*�9u;�����\\@�*^��Wu���F\vBE�� �[��R^t���\"�Y�˒�I���T,�4}K��*�:ҷ*8���m=Z�4�(Y�\\%-\v�!�\\�*(��e�#A8͡ª�jX�m{" But when I do the same on http://google.com - everything is fine! str variable contains readable html code. Changing encoding to "windows-1251" instead of "utf-8" didn't help also. Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks!

[Lost User]

Font I guess? Maybe because it's a perl script?

[Mark Salsbery]

The content returned from http://capitalcity.combats.com/inf.pl?1183463649 is compressed (gzip). You may want to check the HttpWebResponse.ContentEncoding property before assuming the HTTP content is text :) Here's an example (first one I found Googling): HttpWebRequest and GZip Http Responses[^] Mark

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[Evgeni57]

Thanks! That's exectly what I needed!