Question

I’m using the code below to download this XML file:

private async static Task<string> DownloadPageAsync(string url)
{
    try
    {
        HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
        handler.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
        handler.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
        handler.UseCookies = true;
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
        client.MaxResponseContentBufferSize = 10000000;
        HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(url);
        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

        string responseBody = response.Content.ReadAsString();
        return responseBody;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        return "error" + ex.Message;
    }
}

but the document I’m getting seems to have encoding problems. Although the document is not well formatted, I’m guessing my downloaded webpage is not in UTF-8 either. How can I return a UTF-8 string? Thanks.

Answer 1

your link encoding is iso-8859-1.

use

XmlDocument.Load(uriString)

or

XDocument.Load(uriString)