Error when opening zipfiles requests. zipfile.BadZipFile: File is not a zip file

[Tyarel8]

After attempting to donwload and extract a zipfile using httpx

rz = httpx.get(url)
with zipfile.ZipFile(BytesIO(rz.content)) as z:
         z.extractall(DOWNLOAD_PATH)

it throws the following error zipfile.BadZipFile: File is not a zip file

However, using the exact same code but with the requests module works as intended

rz = requests.get(url)
with zipfile.ZipFile(BytesIO(rz.content)) as z:
         z.extractall(DOWNLOAD_PATH)

[lovelydinosaur]

Could you provide an example that we're able to reproduce?

Specifically, including the URL you're using would help here.

[Tyarel8]

import zipfile
from io import BytesIO
import httpx

r = httpx.get("https://golang.org/dl/go1.17.3.windows-amd64.zip")
with zipfile.ZipFile(BytesIO(r.content)) as zf:
    zf.extractall()

[nidemidovich]

Well, when I tried this GET request, I got 301 response code.

[Tyarel8]

Solved, I didn't notice that httpx didn't follow redirects by default, that was why it was working with the request module but not with httpx. (follow_redirects=True)

[snjjay]

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