import urllib.request as Request
import gzip

req = Request.Request('www.bing.com')
req.add_header('upgrade-insecure-requests', 1)
res = Request.urlopen(req).read()
print("RAW Content: %s" %ResPage) # show raw content of web
print("Try decompression:")
print(gzip.decompress(ResPage))   # try decompression

Output:
RAW Content: b'+p\xe70\x0bi{)\xee!\xea\x88\x9c\xd4z\x00Tgb\x8c\x1b\xfa\xe3\xd7\x9f\x7f\x7f\x1d8\xb8\xfeaZ\xb6\xe3z\xbe\'\x7fj\xfd\xff+\x1f\xff\x1a\xbc\xc5N\x00\xab\x00\xa6l\xb2\xc5N\xb2\xdek\xb9V5\x02\t\xd0D \x1d\x92m%\x0c#\xb9>\xfbN\xd7\xa7\x9d\xa5\xa8\x926\xf0\xcc\'\x13\x97\x01/-\x03... ...

Try decompression:
Traceback (most recent call last):
OSError: Not a gzipped file (b'+p')


Process finished with exit code 1

(Sep-02-2018, 07:05 AM)Gribouillis Wrote: You could save the file and hand it to file type detection tools. There are online services for this such as checkfiletype.com (which I haven't tried).

In linux, the 'file' command may find something.

import requests
 
r = requests.get('http://www.bing.com')
print(r.text)
print(r.headers['content-type'])

(Sep-02-2018, 02:24 PM)metulburr Wrote: I dont even get that with your code. I get html code if i change your respage variable to res. Where do you define ResPage? As you only define res.

Anyways the more common approach now is to use the requests module.

import requests
 
r = requests.get('http://www.bing.com')
print(r.text)
print(r.headers['content-type'])