Although I'm using Visual Studio .NET I'm not actually using the .NET framework, it's win32 API all the way. I've given up on trying to get uncompressed HTML from the server, my current idea is to try and and instance an MSHTML control and get that to give me the source to the page.
I've tried sending the compressed data to the gzip library for decompression but it just refuses to believe it's valid data. I even went to the trouble of downloading an open source webbrowser and putting in it's decompression code, still didn't work.
Thanks for the tips though. Someday I'll get it wokring again
K.