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 …

BartButenaers 18 July 2020 20:25 3

Paul,
I have seen similar behaviour already in the passed, due to a missing user-agent . See e.g. this discussion.

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