Reading “chunked” response with HttpWebResponse

Question

I\'m having trouble reading a \"chunked\" response when using a StreamReader to read the stream returned by GetResponseStream() of a HttpWebResponse:

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Answer 1

After trying a lot of snippets from StackOverflow and Google, ultimately I found this to work the best (assuming you know the data a UTF8 string, if not, you can just keep the byte array and process appropriately):

byte[] data;
var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
var reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, Encoding.UTF8);
data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(reader.ReadToEnd());
return Encoding.Default.GetString(data.ToArray());

I found other variations work most of the time, but occasionally truncate the data. I got this snippet from:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4f28d99d-9794-434b-8b78-7f9245c099c4/problems-with-httpwebrequest-and-transferencoding-chunked?forum=ncl