How to read javascript file using HttpWebRequest in c#

Question

I have a javascript file in a remote server, and when I use httpwebrequest it returns some weird characters.

Thr url is http://goo.gl/0Ug5QI

Is this kind of compressed contents?

static string GetScriptSource(string _url)
{
    string _retValue = string.Empty;

    HttpWebRequest hwr = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(_url);
    hwr.Method  = "GET";

    HttpWebResponse res = (HttpWebResponse)hwr.GetResponse();
    StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream());

    return sr.ReadToEnd();
}

My code to read that script file's content is very simple.

Answer 1

Looking at the js source that you linked to, it could be that is has been gzipped. Try saving the source as a file and use 7zip or something to see if you can unzip it. There is a GZip library in C# so if it has been gzipped then you should be able to unzip it easily enough.

Although it's a Korean web site so maybe the encoding is not correct.

Either way it's not a problem with the code that you posted.