Response.GetResponseStream() escapes double quotes

Question

Response.GetResponseStream() is returning xml with escape characters

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>

Because of this XmlReader return {None}. Help please?

HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url); req.Accept = "*/*"; req.Headers.Add("UA-CPU", "x86"); req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; MS-RTC LM 8)"; HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse(); XmlTextReader xRead = new XmlTextReader(resp.GetResponseStream());

xRead is {None} if I the call is from client Script Web Service call. When I check the response stream using a StreamReader

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream() return reader.ReadToEnd()

I see the escape characters

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>

Answer 1

Without a code sample of how you actually get the response, I would just run a simple String.Replace("\\"", "\"");. It could get inefficient if your responses are large, but that's the quick fix.

Answer 2

Thanks for your replies. I have edited my original query with the code