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AsyncHttp for Thomas Parslow

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> May 19, 2002
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Ok, let me ask this another way, because something is going on with the 
way the http is threaded thru the computer. When i access this url:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20020519_573.html

With Webshepard, i get 12,655 bytes of this:
í}ùrÛFÖïßVUÞ  <snip>

With Asynchttp, i apparently get 45,336 bytes of this:
<!-- Published on Sunday May 19,  <snip>

I changed nothing except the Eu program used to fetch the url. Obviously 
Asynchttp is decoding the page for me, but how? Or is it overriding the 
defaults of IE and specifying to the server that i want only plain clear text? 
Part of Async headers sent is ""Accept: */*\n"&" which tells me it will accept 
anything, includng the compressed version of the file. What is it using in 
windows to do this, and when? If i use the Webshepard (or any other http/tcp 
retriever), how would i decode that compressed file once i have it?

Kat,
puzzled