HTTPClient Post Response is Unreadable

Question

I am sending a response in postman that works correctly. When i attempt to recreate it in c# the response indicates success but the content is illegible.

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I am creating the request as follows:

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
var tokenRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, url);
tokenRequest.Content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new object {});
var tokenResponse = await client.SendAsync(tokenRequest);
tokenResponse.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
var content = await tokenResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

The response in postman looks like:

{
    "token": "sometoken",
    "type": "Bearer",
    ...
}

Answer 1

Enable automatic decompression for the HttpClient, for example:

HttpClient client = new HttpClient(new SocketsHttpHandler()
{
    AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip // or All
});

Also check out:

• Guidelines for using HttpClient
• Use IHttpClientFactory to implement resilient HTTP requests

for best practices working with the HttpClient