I am trying to call a REST service from a C# ASP.NET 4.0 application using RestSharp.
It's a fairly straightforward POST call to a https:// address; my code is something like this (CheckStatusRequest is a plain simple DTO with about four or five string and int properties - nothing fancy):
public CheckStatusResponse CheckStatus(CheckStatusRequest request) { // set up RestClient RestClient client = new RestClient(); string uri = "https://......."; // create the request (see below) IRestRequest restRequest = CreateRequestWithHeaders(url, Method.POST); // add the body to the request restRequest.AddBody(request); // execute call var restResponse = _restClient.Execute<CheckStatusResponse>(restRequest); } // set up request private IRestRequest CreateRequestWithHeaders(string uri, Method method) { // define request RestRequest request = new RestRequest(uri, method); // add two required HTTP headers request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json"); request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json"); // define JSON as my format request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json; // attach the JSON.NET serializer for RestSharp request.JsonSerializer = new RestSharpJsonNetSerializer(); return request; } The problem I'm having when I send these requests through Fiddler to see what's going on is that my request suddenly gets a third and unwanted HTTP header:
POST https://-some-url- HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/json User-Agent: RestSharp/104.4.0.0 Content-Type: application/json Host: **********.com Content-Length: 226 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate <<<=== This one here is UNWANTED! Connection: Keep-Alive I suddenly have that Accept-Encoding HTTP header, which I never specified (and which I don't want to have in there). And now my response is no longer proper JSON (which I'm able to parse), but suddenly I get back gzipped binary data instead (which doesn't do real well when trying to JSON-deserialize)....
How can I get rid of that third unwanted HTTP header?
- I tried to set it to something else - whatever I enter just gets appended to those settings
- I tried to somehow "clear" that HTTP header - without any success
- I tried finding a property on the RestClient or the RestRequest classes to specify "do not use GZip"
