Decompress a GZipped response from the server (Socket)

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Published on 2010-04-11T23:06:35Z Indexed on 2010/04/11 23:13 UTC
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Umm, ok, after sending some data to the server, noting this particular part:

"Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\n"

I am getting the following response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:25:27 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:25:27 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding

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But how do I decompress it? Note that I am using the Socket Class to do all the work.

I know how to decompress it, but the problem here lies in the fact that I cannot separate the Packet from the GZipped data, psuedo-psuedocode (or whatever) on how I do it:

Socket sends packet;
Socket reads response from server, stores into a ByteArray;
Create MemoryStream, use ByteArray;
Create GZipStream, use Memorystream;

now the problem occurs; I am getting the following Error:

System.IO.InvalidDataException The magic number in GZip header is not correct. Make sure you are passing in a GZip stream.

I hope the explanation is clear enough >__>.

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