Does .NET's HttpWebResponse uncompress automatically GZiped and Deflated responses?

Question

I am trying to do a request that accepts a compressed response

var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(requestUri);
request.Headers.Add(HttpReque         


        

Answer 1

I think you have to decompress the stream yourself. Here's an article on how to do it:

http://www.west-wind.com/WebLog/posts/102969.aspx