HttpRequest.ContentEncoding Property

Definition

Gets or sets the character set of the entity-body.

public System.Text.Encoding ContentEncoding { get; set; }
Property Value

An Encoding object representing the client's character set.

Examples

The following code example assigns a value representing the description of the current HTTP encoding to a string variable.

String EncodingType;
 EncodingType = Request.ContentEncoding.EncodingName;
   
Dim EncodingType As String
 EncodingType = Request.ContentEncoding.EncodingName
   

Remarks

Default content encoding can be specified in the globalization Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) of a configuration file. If content encoding is also specified by the client, the default configuration settings are overridden.