Fiddler encodes decoded response. How can I do the same in vb.net?

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I am using httpwebrequest to get a response from a website. In this response I should see an xml. But in my response it just shows me jibberish. I used fiddler to see what I get. I get an encoded response, which I manually need to decode to see the contents(this is in fiddler). How can I do the same thing in vb.net ? edit The response comes back as https. I have tried: ``` HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(myResult,myStreamwriter) Dim request As HttpWebRequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create("www.url.com/$filetype=xml"), HttpWebRequest) request.KeepAlive = True request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11" request.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8" request.ContentType = "text/xml, charset=utf-8" request.Headers.Set(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptEncoding, "gzip,deflate,sdch") request.Headers.Set(HttpRequestHeader.AcceptLanguage, "nl-NL,nl;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4") request.Headers.Set(…

Accepted Answer

Sounds like you need to decompress the response.

Have you tried HttpWebRequest AutomaticDecompression? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.automaticdecompression.aspx

```
httpWebRequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate;
```

Fiddler encodes decoded response. How can I do the same in vb.net?

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