[SalesForce] Using AMPscript to retrieve content from CloudPages

We've build a CloudPage that looks like this:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <title></title>
</head>
<body>hello world</body>
</html>

Nothing complex here. If we view the page source in a web browser, we see the same content (with the inserted tracking script):

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
 <title></title>
</head>
<body>hello world
<script>(function(a,m,i,g,o,s){o=a.createElement(g);s=a.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];o.src=m.origin+m.pathname+"/_t?eventType=CLOUDPAGESVISIT";o.width=0;o.height=0;o.style.display="none";s.appendChild(o);})(document,window.location,"body","img");</script>

    <script src="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;7230771.collect.igodigital.com&#x2F;collect.js"></script>
    <script>
        if (_etmc && typeof _etmc.push === 'function') {
            _etmc.push(['setOrgId', '7230771']);
            _etmc.push(['trackPageView']);
        }
    </script>

</body>
</html>

So far, so good. However, if we retrieve the page content using the following AMPscript…

%%[
var @cloudPage
set @cloudPage = HTTPGet('http://mydomain.com/page')
]%%
%%=v(@cloudPage)=%%

…then I see the following poop in the email preview:

email preview

I've figured out what is happening. If I inspect the HTTP response headers using cURL, I see that the page uses gzip encoding, so HTTPGet is essentially retrieving a binary file:

$ curl -I http://mydomain.com/page
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 429
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Encoding: gzip
Expires: -1
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 04:07:15 GMT
Connection: close

If I use cURL to save the CloudPage URL to a file, I can unzip the file and view the HTML.

So, in summary, CloudPages (including Code Resources) use gzip compression, so they can't be parsed by AMPscript. Does anyone know of a solution to this?

Best Answer

This seemed to work best for me, adding on to what @sforce had provided:

<script runat="server">
  Platform.Load("core","1");

  var url = "http://PAGEID";
  var headerNames = ["Accept-Encoding"];
  var headerValues = ["gzip, deflate, sdch, br"];
  var response = HTTP.Get(url, headerNames, headerValues);

  Write(response.Content);
</script>
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