Possible to read content without decoding it?

[pmeier]

IIUC

httpx.Response().read()

always decodes the content before reading in case it is able to:

httpx/httpx/_models.py

Lines 830 to 834 in e63b659

	decoder = self._get_content_decoder()
	chunker = ByteChunker(chunk_size=chunk_size)
	with request_context(request=self._request):
	for raw_bytes in self.iter_raw():
	decoded = decoder.decode(raw_bytes)

Is it possible to get the raw content, or rather await response.aread() it, without applying any decoding?

[karpetrosyan]

You can use iter_raw directly

Like so:

import httpx

with httpx.stream("GET", "https://www.youtube.com") as response:
    print(response.headers['content-encoding'])  # gzip
    raw_content = b''.join(response.iter_raw())  # gziped content

[pmeier]

🤦 Thanks, that is exactly what I'm looking for. Not sure how I missed it in the documentation.