Bad text file after download it

Question

When I try download text file, I get bad text like "úěćË¨Të€Ás…žVż$—éxś¶źŹßCb}ă¬–92á•,˝V....."

I use WebClient class:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    WebClient _WebClient = new WebClient();
    string url = "http://bossa.pl/pub/metastock/forex/sesjafx/";
    string file= "20120601.prn";
    _WebClient.DownloadFile(url + file, @"C:\"+file);
}

There is not problem with file 20120603.prn, but with 20120601.prn is. What is going?

Are there only english letters in 20120603.prn? – Likurg Jun 09 '12 at 12:07 — Likurg, Jun 09 '12 at 12:07

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '12 at 12:12

2

You need something like this

client.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("your encoding");

answered Jun 09 '12 at 12:12

Likurg

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If im not mistake your Encoding will be "ISO8859-2" – Likurg Jun 09 '12 at 12:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Duplicate of Automatically decompress gzip response via WebClient.DownloadData

basically you have to enable automatic decompression of the webclient. If you examine the responseheaders (forexample by using firebug or fiddler) for file 20120601.prn a gzip Content-Encoding is returned. For file 20120603.prn that Content-Encoding header is missing at all.

void Main()
{
    WebClient _WebClient = new MyWebClient(); 
    string url = "http://bossa.pl/pub/metastock/forex/sesjafx/"; 
    string file= "20120601.prn";
    string a = _WebClient.DownloadString(url + file); 
}

class MyWebClient : WebClient 
{ 
    protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri address) 
    { 
        HttpWebRequest request = base.GetWebRequest(address) as HttpWebRequest; 
        request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.Deflate | DecompressionMethods.GZip; 
        return request; 
    } 
}

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '12 at 12:16

1

set your encoding to UTF8

_WebClient.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

answered Jun 09 '12 at 12:16

Damith

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Bad text file after download it

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