Retrieve JSON with StackOverflow in C#

Question

My problem is very simple and self-explanatory in the comments of the code. With a url different from StackOverflow, the Json appears with no problem but, with a Json obtained from StackOverflow it has a strange encoded form.

Here is my code:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        //goodUrl is working in this program and in the browser.
        string goodUrl = "http://yuml.me/23db58a4.json";
        //badUrl is not working in this program, but works fine in the browser.
        string badUrl = "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/me?key=qxtbTbIIEhAZFGO0QOziMA((&site=stackoverflow&order=desc&sort=reputation&access_token=mytoken&filter=!23IiyZnRyYmQ4bPZYWRA1";
        HttpWebRequest webRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(badUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
        webRequest.Method = "GET";
        webRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
        StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(webRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
        try
        {
            string str = responseReader.ReadToEnd();
            //With Bad-url, "str" ENCODE JSON but with STRANGE ASCII CODE.
            Console.Write(str);
            Console.Read();
        }
        //...
    }

Where is the real problem and how can I solve this?

One thing I will suggest is to read the response line by line and not ReadToEnd because there is a chance that the file will be pretty big. — John Odom
– John Odom, Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 15:54
@JohnOdom: Since he needs to parse the JOSN anyway, that won't help much. He should actually pass the stream directly to the parser. — SLaks
– SLaks, Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 15:55
Well. You can see that the JSON is very small if click on that link. The strange encode matches with the length of Json. here what I got: imgur.com/572yB6A — user840718
– user840718, Commented Feb 10, 2014 at 15:55

L.B · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-10 15:58:31Z

1

You get a compressed result.

var stream = webRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream();
MemoryStream m = new MemoryStream();
new System.IO.Compression.GZipStream(stream, System.IO.Compression.CompressionMode.Decompress).CopyTo(m);
try
{
    string str = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(m.ToArray()); 
    Console.Write(str);
    Console.Read();
}
finally
{
 ........
}

answered Feb 10, 2014 at 15:58

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user840718 Over a year ago

Yeah! It worked for me! I got a compressed result. Many thanks!

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