How to decompress a string coming from an API using HttpClient in C#?

Question

I'm trying to consume a API with HttpClient.
But in the Body response I get a binary combination of characters which is not any compression algorithm:

Headers:

content-disposition: attachment; filename=1-45720792-4b25-31a5-b79a-45871e7a14ef
content-encoding: deflate
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Expires: 0

Body:

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It is for this reason that no algorithms such as deflate, gzip, etc. have been used for decompression.

This is the code:

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", token);

HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "milink_does_not_important");

request.Headers.Remove("Accept-Encoding");

HttpResponseMessage response = client.SendAsync(request).Result;

if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
   // Print the response
    Console.WriteLine(response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result);
}

I would like to decompress what comes in the response Body.

Answer 1

I solved it by just adding this:

client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");