Trying to download some statistical data from https://c19downloads.azureedge.net/downloads/msoa_data/MSOAs_latest.json If I use that url in a browser, I get access to the full data, but when trying using the http request node I either get a lot of what appears to be encrypted data, or a message sa…

[image] Paul-Reed: As the json response is large, is it possible that the data is compressed I "think" you are right. This is what I get when I debug the http-request node: [image] So it gets a quite large body, which contains a zipped json. I have always been assuming that this kind of …

Http request node - gzip encrypted response

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Paul-Reed 18 July 2020 21:50 15

Adding a node-red-contrib-gzip node to the flow, plus a json node, and the output is correctly formed json!!

Thanks @BartButenaers

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