The
http-request,
http-get and
http-post words output a sequence containing data that was sent by the server.
If the server specifies a
content-type header with a character encoding, the HTTP client decodes the data using this character encoding, and the sequence will be a string.
If no encoding was specified but the MIME type is a text type, the
latin1 encoding is assumed, and the sequence will be a string.
For any other MIME type, the
binary encoding is assumed, and thus the data is returned literally in a byte array.