Question

this one is baking my head, i need an XML feed, but the feed is inside a gzip file.
now i can download, unpack, save file etc.

but what i want to do is get the gzip in memory
put the contents into memory
read the contents into memory
and then pass that to the serializer

problem here is that results contain unreadable gibberish and reader1 and reader both contain none. I am missing another line here but cant seem to find what it is.

var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("urltofeed.com");
request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
// auto unpack gzip
request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
StreamReader data = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()); 
var result = data.ReadToEnd();

XmlReader reader1 = XmlReader.Create(response.GetResponseStream());
var reader = new XmlTextReader(response.GetResponseStream());

Answer 1

Direclty from MSDN:

            //Create the decompressed file.
            using (FileStream outFile = File.Create(origName))
            {
                using (GZipStream Decompress = new GZipStream(inFile,
                        CompressionMode.Decompress))
                {
                    // Copy the decompression stream 
                    // into the output file.
                    Decompress.CopyTo(outFile);

                    Console.WriteLine("Decompressed: {0}", fi.Name);

                }
            }

So in your case something like

using (var GZipStream decompress = new GZipStream(response.GetResponseStream(), CompressionMode.Decompress))
{
    // XmlReader reader1 = XmlReader.Create(decompress);
    // or ? var reader = new XmlTextReader(decompress);
}