How to store an Http Response that may contain binary data?

Question

As I described in a previous question, I have an assignment to write a proxy server. It partially works now, but I still have a problem with handling of gzipped information.

Answer 1

You basically need to parse the response headers as text, and the rest as binary. It's slightly tricky to do so, as you can't just create an InputStreamReader around the stream - that will read more data than you want. You'll quite possibly need to read data into a byte array and then call Encoding.GetString manually. Alternatively, if you've read data into a byte array already you could always create a ByteArrayInputStream around that, then an InputStreamReader on top... but you'll need to work out how far the headers go before you get to the body of the response, which you should keep as binary data.