On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Arya F <arya6000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using Apache HTTPClient 4.5.3 to make some HTTP requests, but I am > getting a gzipped response back I have tried many things I found online but > non of them worked. This question is probably more meant for the httpclient-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list, but I can try a response based on the HTTP protocol... > > static public String updates() { > String result = ""; > String url = "https://example.com"; > CloseableHttpClient httpClient = CreateHttpClient(); > CloseableHttpResponse response = null; > URL urlObj; > RequestConfig config = GetConfig(); > > try { > urlObj = new URL(url); > > HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url); > request.setConfig(config); > > StringEntity params = new StringEntity("example"); > > request.addHeader("Accept-Language", "en"); > request.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; > charset=UTF-8"); > request.addHeader("Content-Length", > String.valueOf(params.getContentLength())); > request.addHeader("Host", urlObj.getHost()); > request.addHeader("Connection", "Keep-Alive"); > request.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip"); You should try to *not* add this request header which says the response can be gzip-encoded. Without it, the server ought to respond with a plain response body. > > request.setEntity(params); > response = httpClient.execute(request); > > int responseCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode(); > > System.out.println("updates response code: " + responseCode); > > > // BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new > // InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8")); > > result = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()); > // String line = ""; > // while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { > // result.append(line); > // } > > } catch (Exception e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } finally { > try { > if (response != null) > response.close(); > httpClient.close(); > } catch (IOException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > } > > return result; > } Regards, Yann. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx