Feature request: Response Body Bytes

[developervariety]

Instead of having a response in only one format, a byte array would be appreciated.

[developervariety]

If I would've looked a bit further, .Message has everything I needed haha.

[matteocontrini]

Hi, that's correct, the HttpResponse exposes the System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage, and from that you should be able to access the response content.

Note that the body will still be read to a string unless you set ReadBody to false in the request. In that case, however, you would need to read the body manually:

byte[] array = await resp.Message.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync();

There's definitely space for improvement, but honestly I didn't think much about it since the most common use case is probably to read the response as a string :)