问题 I have just posted this question, which answer came right away. It, in turn, creates the following new question: If my understanding is correct, the StreamContent object, from HttpResponseMessage , is created upon making an HTTP request via HttpClient.GetAsync . Its Header property, or part of it, will be set according to meta tags included in the HTML source file. For instance, a meta tag can tell the response object with which charset encode the file's contents. <meta http-equiv='Content