Re: http/1.1 decompress

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Thus wrote Frederik,

Kevin,

I don't seem to be able to solve the decompress problem but I have
another
possible solution for my problem.
Maybe you can help me with that.
I should be able to remove the content-encoding field from the header
before
the request is send to the server => the server won't compress the
message
and I can read the response.
So I think I should create a sort of proxy that checks outgoing
messages for
the content-encoding field.
I should capture the messages before they're are being send to port
80, adjust them and do a resend.

The only problem is that I'm not sure how I can create such a
construction.

Do you have an idea how I can start?

To avoid receiving compressed content, make sure *not* to send an Accept-Encoding header with a value of "gzip" or "deflate". .NET 1.x has no built-in support for compression, so just make sure you don't set the header in your code explicitly. In .NET 2.0, set HttpWebRequest.AutomaticDecompression to DecompressionMethods.None.

Cheers,
--
Joerg Jooss
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