How to deal with application/octet-stream type API response

Question

I have received a response from the API as string and based on the documentation the response will be as mentioned below.

application/octet-stream Content created by requested job in a gzip compressed file.

The string response I received is in a binary format and I see .csv file name as well in there Please click here to see the response . I don't see this file either in bin folder of the project or in AppData. I searched for this file whole file system but no luck.

Anyone came across such response? Let me know if any improvements required in my question.

Answer 1

Apparently the output is in GZip stream which is compressed format.

Below are the links I found very useful.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/27203/GZipStream-Compress-Decompress-a-string

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.gzipstream(v=vs.110).aspx