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diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst index cdced6b9..618887f8 100644 --- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst +++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst @@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ We can read the content of the server's response:: Requests does its best to decode content from the server. Most unicode charsets, ``gzip``, and ``deflate`` encodings are all seamlessly decoded. +When you make a request, ``r.encoding`` is set, based on the HTTP headers. +Requests will attempt to use that encoding when you access ``r.content``. You +can manually set ``r.encoding`` to any encoding you'd like (including ``None``), +and that charset will be used. + Make a POST Request ------------------- |