Encoding with HttpClient in .NET 4.5

Question

I\'m consuming some data using the fogbugz XML API. This API always offers data as UTF-8.

When using the WebClient class for making a request I am able

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you don't need a string, you need XML.

So, assuming your data is not too big, read a byte array with

byte[] bytes = await client.GetByteArrayAsync(url); 

then create a memory stream from that array, and then read XML from that stream, for example:

XElement element = XElement.Load(new MemoryStream(bytes), LoadOptions.None);

If you're using another XML API, you can use

XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new MemoryStream(bytes));