Zend_Http_Client and Garbled Response Body
Using Zend_Http_Client to make a simple REST GET request to a web service and the body of the response I got back was completely mangled – i.e. the characters were not even remotely readable. That’s strange I thought, and pasted the url in my browser and it came back fine. Looking at the response headers, I saw the content encoding was gzip ([Content-encoding] => gzip), which made sense as my browser would uncompress the response, while PHP would not automatically do that.
Rather than trying to uncompress the response, I modified the request header to not accept gzip and it came back un-encoded and ready to use in PHP:
<?php
$client = new Zend_Http_Client($url);
$client->setHeaders(array(‘Accept-encoding’ => ‘’));
$response = $client->request();
print_r($response);
?>