HttpContentHeaderCollection.ContentEncoding Property

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.Web.Http.Headers

Gets the HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection of HttpContentCodingHeaderValue objects that represent the value of an HTTP Content-Encoding header on the HTTP content.

public:
 property HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection ^ ContentEncoding { HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection ^ get(); };

HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection ContentEncoding();

public HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection ContentEncoding { get; }

var httpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection = httpContentHeaderCollection.contentEncoding;

Public ReadOnly Property ContentEncoding As HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection

Property Value

HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection

The collection of HttpContentCodingHeaderValue objects that represent the value of an HTTP Content-Encoding header on the HTTP content. An empty collection means that the header is absent.

Remarks

The following sample code shows a method to get or set the Content-Encoding header value on HTTP content using the ContentEncoding property on the HttpContentHeaderCollection object.

// Content-Encoding header
// HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection
// HttpContentCodingHeaderValue [has ContentCoding, a string]
void DemoContentEncoding(IHttpContent content) {
    var h = content.Headers;

    h.ContentEncoding.TryParseAdd("gzip");
    h.ContentEncoding.TryParseAdd("cab, compress");
    h.ContentEncoding.Add(new HttpContentCodingHeaderValue("myencoding"));

    var header = h.ContentEncoding;
    uiLog.Text += "\nCONTENT ENCODING HEADER\n";
    foreach (var item in header) {
        uiLog.Text += string.Format("ContentCoding: {0}  ToString: {1}\n", item.ContentCoding, item.ToString());
    }
    uiLog.Text += string.Format("ContentEncoding: ToString: {0}\n\n", header.ToString());
}

See also

• HttpContentCodingHeaderValue
• HttpContentCodingHeaderValueCollection