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Mcloving
Mcloving

Reputation: 1410

C# XML downloading with wrong encoding

I have tried many methods to deserialise this xml from URL. But none were successful due to what I believe is an encoding issue.

If i right click download, then deserialise it from my C drive, it works fine.

So i decided to try downloading the file first, and then process it. But the file it downloads via code is in the wrong encoding as well!

I dont know where to start, but im thinking maybe forcing a UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding when downloading??

Here is the download code:

using (var client = new WebClient())
{
    client.DownloadFile("http://example.com/my.xml", "my.xml");
}

How to download a file from a URL in C#?

Image of file when downloaded enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1567

Answers (2)

Mcloving
Mcloving

Reputation: 1410

The file was infact in a gzip format. Despite it being an xml url.

My connections must have been accepting gzip so the server responded with such. Even though i tried a few different methods with different variations. (Downloading/String streaming, parsing string from URL etc)

The solution for me, was to download, then uncompress the gzip file before deserialising. Telling the server not to send gzip didn't work. But may be a possibility for some.

Upvotes: 0

JOSEFtw
JOSEFtw

Reputation: 10071

Try this

using (var client = new WebClient())
{
    client.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
    client.DownloadFile("http://example.com/my.xml", "my.xml");
}

Upvotes: 3

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