HttpWebResponse.ContentEncoding Property
.NET Framework 2.0
Gets the method that is used to encode the body of the response.
Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System (in system.dll)
Assembly: System (in system.dll)
The following example uses the ContentEncoding property to obtain the value of the Content-Encoding header returned with the response.
try { HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse(); Console.WriteLine("The encoding method used is: " + myHttpWebResponse.ContentEncoding); Console.WriteLine("The character set used is :" + myHttpWebResponse.CharacterSet); char seperator = '/'; String contenttype = myHttpWebResponse.ContentType; // Retrieve 'text' if the content type is of 'text/html. String maintype = contenttype.Substring(0,contenttype.IndexOf(seperator)); // Display only 'text' type. if (String.Compare(maintype,"text") == 0) { Console.WriteLine("\n Content type is 'text'.");
try {
HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)
WebRequest.Create(url);
HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)
myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();
Console.WriteLine("The encoding method used is: "
+ myHttpWebResponse.get_ContentEncoding());
Console.WriteLine("The character set used is :"
+ myHttpWebResponse.get_CharacterSet());
char seperator = '/';
String contentType = myHttpWebResponse.get_ContentType();
// Retrieve 'text' if the content type is of 'text/html.
String mainType = contentType.Substring(0,
contentType.IndexOf(seperator));
// Display only 'text' type.
if (String.Compare(mainType,"text") == 0) {
Console.WriteLine("\n Content type is 'text'.");
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