the code example for streaming responses seems to be outdated, it does not compile: https://ktor.io/docs/response.html#streaming

Check your imports, there are extension functions that take different numbers of params

strange that idea does not offer to add that import

There's a

readUTF8Line

function, but for other encodings you might have to roll your own

oh cool thats exactly what I need. thanks!

I'm mainly using the Apache client, and I've had mixed success with response streaming. Some odd truncated chunk errors that may or may not be Ktor's fault. Don't know much about the other clients. I've been tempted to try CIO because I assume it's been designed specifically to work with Ktor's streaming model.