Web Request Encoding Problem

Question

Hi i'm getting encoding problems with the code below any ideas?

string url = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=istanbul,TR&hl=tr";
        HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
        using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
        {
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
            string retVal = reader.ReadToEnd();
            Response.Write(retVal);
        }

My Screenshoot is like that;

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Thanks for your help!

Got the same problem with spanish. The accepted answer worked for me. — Jeroen
– Jeroen, Commented Jun 15, 2011 at 22:39

Chris Haas · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-17 13:24:29Z

4

Google is notorious for checking the useragent HTTP header. Because you're not setting it its encoding everything as ISO-8859-9. The simple solution is to manually set the UserAgent property of the HttpWebRequest. Set it to anything you want, below is a Firefox string (and an extra Using block):

        string url = "http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=istanbul,TR&hl=tr";
        HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
        request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1";
        using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
        {
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                string retVal = reader.ReadToEnd();
                Console.WriteLine(retVal);
            }
        }

answered May 17, 2011 at 13:24

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Jeroen Over a year ago

Let me buy you a beer sometime.

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