readme 2nd example: StringError not valid UTF-8

[bsansouci]

Hey guys, I'm super noob and was trying to run the 2nd example but got an error. Here is the exact error I'm getting:

thread '<main>' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error { repr: Custom(Custom { kind: InvalidInput, error: StringError("stream did not contain valid UTF-8") }) }', /Users/rustbuild/src/rust-buildbot/slave/stable-dist-rustc-mac/build/src/libcore/result.rs:729
An unknown error occurred

I didn't change the example code, I just copy pasted it.

[bsansouci]

I noticed the typo in the url "http://www.gooogle.com/" but correcting it didn't change anything. It worked for "http://www.reddit.com/" for some reasons :p

[seanmonstar]

I've changed the example to download rust-lang.org.

[bsansouci]

Awesome :)

[manvir-singh]

For anyone running into this problem: I ran into this same problem with "http://www.google.com/" and some other sites I did some digging and realized the response is gziped you have to decompress it first thats why you get "stream did not contain valid UTF-8".

[jonfk]

@Programming4Life I got the same issue and I see why that is happening. I am wondering why hyper doesn't decompress the response transparently, I am guessing it's to be more explicit about what is happening. Does hyper offer a way to decompress the gzipped response or do I have to get another library to do the decompression?

Thanks if you can help.

Here is the code I am using:

extern crate hyper;

use hyper::client;
use std::io::Read;

fn main() {
    let client = client::Client::new();

    let mut res = client.get("https://www.google.com").send().unwrap();
    assert_eq!(res.status, hyper::Ok);
    let mut response_string = String::new();
    res.read_to_string(&mut response_string).unwrap();
    println!("{}", response_string);
}