Set the Content-Encoding in the headers of an HTTP Post

[Paul Phillips]

Has anyone been able or is having trouble with setting the Content-Encoding
to a value in the headers collection of an HTTPWebRequest object.

I am trying to post a RosettaNet message to a trading partner that is using
webMethods server. The message gets to their server just fine but it is not
processing. They are telling me that the $contentEncoding has a value of
NULL. They are telling me that this is part of the Header information. I
have looked up the header property info on MSDN but I don't see anything
mentioned of setting the ContentEncoding.

Any one have suggestions.

Thanks,

Paul

[Paul Phillips]

Thanks,
Could you tell me what or where I can find valid values for the
"Content-Encoding"? If I add it to the headers collection what are valid
values for it?

Would this be a valid value:

myWebHeaderCollection.Add("Content-Encoding", "UTF8")

Thanks,

paul
"Vadym Stetsyak" wrote:

Hello, Paul!

PP> I am trying to post a RosettaNet message to a trading partner that is
PP> using webMethods server. The message gets to their server just fine
PP> but it is not processing. They are telling me that the
PP> $contentEncoding has a value of NULL. They are telling me that this is
PP> part of the Header information. I have looked up the header property
PP> info on MSDN but I don't see anything mentioned of setting the
PP> ContentEncoding.

You can add this header manually, using HttpWebRequest.Headers collection.

Here comes short sample:

HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://www.msn.com");

//Get the headers associated with the request.
WebHeaderCollection myWebHeaderCollection = myHttpWebRequest.Headers;
myWebHeaderCollection.Add("Content-Encoding","gzip");

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Regards, Vadym Stetsyak
www: http://vadmyst.blogspot

[Joerg Jooss]

Thus wrote Paul,

Thanks,
Could you tell me what or where I can find valid values for the
"Content-Encoding"? If I add it to the headers collection what are
valid
values for it?
See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/...c3.html#sec3.5. Probably
RosettaNet defines its own additional headers, but I suspect what you're
really looking for is a way to set the character encoding of your message.
Would this be a valid value:

myWebHeaderCollection.Add("Content-Encoding", "UTF8")

Usually not, because a character encoding isn't a content encoding as defined
in http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/....html#sec14.11. The character
encoding can be set using the Content-Type header, e.g.
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8

Cheers,
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Joerg Jooss
ne********@joergjooss.de