Although the defaults make a lot of sense, sometimes a server doesn't play nice and you need to set a specific content encoding and character set to be accepted. For example, teh webserver I am talking to claims to support gzipped content, but often returns scrambled data when I ask for it.
I suggest keeping the defaults in place but allow setting of content encodings and charset on the HttpClient, so these settings are used in any successive http request.
Although the defaults make a lot of sense, sometimes a server doesn't play nice and you need to set a specific content encoding and character set to be accepted. For example, teh webserver I am talking to claims to support gzipped content, but often returns scrambled data when I ask for it.
I suggest keeping the defaults in place but allow setting of content encodings and charset on the HttpClient, so these settings are used in any successive http request.