How to set encoding in C#?

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I have a problem with encoding, I want to set encoding for example to HttpWebResponse resp, everywhere where I look it says something like that resp.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8, but in practice that is wrong, because it says that ContentEncoding is a read-only property, please help me.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227575/encoding-problem-with-httpwebresponse — JohnL, Aug 04 '11 at 16:13

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '11 at 16:14

You need to differentiate between two similar-sounding but very different classes:

HttpWebReponse is the response received in code from a web request. In other words, you don't get to set the data on it, because it was sent by another server.
HttpResponse is the response your code is sending from ASP.NET. This is the object you get to write your response data to... and the ContentEncoding property is writable.

How to set encoding in C#?

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