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Robert Segdewick
Robert Segdewick

Reputation: 583

HttpClient can't parse "UTF-8" Content-Type

I am experiencing a known bug in the HttpClient. Anytime the server response contains "UTF-8" (including quotes), an exception is triggered:

The character set provided in ContentType is invalid. Cannot read content as string using an invalid character set. ---> System.ArgumentException: '"utf-8"' is not a supported encoding name.

Example code:

HttpClient _client = new HttpClient();
HttpRequestMessage requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "https://www.facebook.com");
requestMessage.Headers.Add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.4044.55 Safari/537.36");

HttpResponseMessage response = _client.SendAsync(requestMessage).GetAwaiter().GetResult();

What is the usual workaroud? I am using .NETFramework 4.6.1.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2599

Answers (1)

weichch
weichch

Reputation: 10035

To workaround the referenced issue:

using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
    HttpRequestMessage requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, 
        "https://www.facebook.com");
    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);

    byte[] buf = await response.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync();
    string content = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buf);
}

Upvotes: 6

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