C# code for downloading item, that checks text/binary, and gzip/non-compressed???

Question

Hi,

QUESTION: Anyone have some code they could post that will download a file from a URL/Link that will automatically handle: (a) binary or text based (b) gzip encoded

BACKGROUND: I've been starting to do this but hitting hurdles. Like I was using WebClient however it seems it can't handle the gzip bit (need to drop back to HTTPWebRequest). Also I'm getting a little confused re how to tell if the link/URL (e.g. taken from a HTML page) is really Text or Binary. Is there a well list of all content types that would be TEXT, or the ones that would be BINARY?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can check for ContentType header in the Response's headers, primarily all text types begin with "text/*" like "text/html", "text/xml" etc etc, however here is a list of content types that can be useful. "application/javascript" etc are also text based but they are in different category.

Content Types

Answer 2

Does the answer to this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/678547/does-nets-httpwebresponse-uncompress-automatically-gziped-and-deflated-response give you what you want?