I see under HTTP::Response, the options to retrieve raw content or decoded content.

But there doesn't seem to be a $response->type, where type returns something to indicate whether I should "decode the content" (i.e. an HTML file), or should get the 'raw' content' (i.e. it's binary and decoding it would mess it up).

If I call content, then I get a raw, but HTML isn't decoded to UTF-8, but if I call decoded content, then it says: "Returns the content with any Content-Encoding undone and the raw content encoded to perl's Unicode strings."

By encoding a 'gif' file into UTF-8, it will corrupt the file. So this doesn't seem to help, but seems to be stuck at the same place I was before -- knowing the content of the the buffer before looking at it! *lame!*...

This seems so basic -- there has to be a way to properly retrieve a URI, and process it or store it, unprocessed -- I'm just missing it...since it seems like a very common problem, I can't imagine that everyone goes and starts hacking headers and trying to figure out what combination of 'use utf8/local/bytes'...etc, is necessary to make sense of this ...

In reply to Re^2: LWP::Curl and character encoding by perl-diddler
in thread LWP::Curl and character encoding by perl-diddler

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