Unable to View Response When Server Returns Incorrect Content-Encoding Header

[youngminz]

Expected Behavior

For a better user experience, it would be beneficial if the behavior is changed as follows:

1. At the end of the error message, show the server's response, such as 'UTF-8' header returned by the server is incorrect. This allows users to understand more clearly why Insomnia considers it an error.
2. Instead of treating header parsing failure as an error, display it as a warning and perform a fallback action by automatically detecting and decoding the encoding to UTF-8, then show the response.

Actual Behavior

Servers often return technically incorrect Content-Encoding headers. The server I'm testing does the same, returning Content-Encoding header with the value UTF-8. Upon further investigation, I found a question on SO that matches my situation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17154967/is-content-encoding-being-set-to-utf-8-invalid

Both Chrome web browser and cURL command show the response correctly in such cases. However, Insomnia only shows an error: Error: Unrecognized or bad HTTP Content or Transfer-Encoding.

Reproduction Steps

1. In Insomnia, you send a GET request to http://openapi.seoul.go.kr:8088/sample/xml/TbAdpWaitAnimalView/1/5/
2. You confirm that an error occurs.

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Additional Information

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Insomnia Version

v8.6.1

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System Version

macOS 14.3.1(23D60)

Installation method

I can't remember.

Last Known Working Insomnia version

No response