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Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon.

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Mayayana,

>  Identity means uncompressed?

Among others, yes (in whole: Don't touch the contents.  No encoding, no 
translation)

>  If you don't get it, I can give you VB6 code for GZip.

Thanks.  But I've got zlib1.dll here, and enough knowledge to build me 
another Active-X component if must be. :-)


But ... I've been cought out by one of the oldest "gotcha!"s there is: I did 
set the accept-encoding, but a few lines down I had another such setting 
which added the gzip encoding to it. <embarrassed>

Once I noticed and disabled it, I got the data I wanted/needed back.   In 
short: problem solved (unless a server refuses to send data non-gzip-ed 
ofcourse).

But I'm wondering: when is getting your hands on raw 
transport-compressed/encoded data usefull ?   Can't really think of a 
situation, or it must be a rather contrived one.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> wrote in message 
news:orlhhv$sda$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote
>
> | I can get the website to respond, but for some reason the content is
> | delivered as raw GZIP compressed data (even when I set the 
> accept-encoding
> | to "identity").
> |
>
>  Identity means uncompressed? The RFC doesn't seem to
> explain that. I wonder if it might work to put something
> like "applepie", thus causing the server to conclude that
> it doesn't offer anything you can use.
>
>  If you don't get it, I can give you VB6 code for GZip.
> I also have components, sjHTTP and jsHTTP2, to deal
> with it.
>   www.jsware.net/scripts.php5
>
>  Or you might be able to find other options online.
> It's common and fairly simple encoding.
>
> 

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Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 13:54 +0200
  Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 09:11 -0400
    Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 17:45 +0200
      Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:24 +0200
        Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 12:39 -0400
          Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:59 +0200
            Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 14:53 -0400
              Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 22:22 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 17:45 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 09:25 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 10:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 19:19 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 14:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 23:09 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 12:28 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 14:26 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 18:23 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-14 09:54 +0200

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