title: unable to decode Python web request
body: <p>I am trying to make web request to my trading account . Python is unable to decode the web request. Web request is successful with code - 200.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code below</p>
  
  <pre><code>import requests
  
  headers = {
      'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
      'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
      'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36',
      'x-kite-version': '1.2.1',
      'accept': 'application/json, text/plain, */*',
      'referer': 'https://kite.zerodha.com/orders',
      'authority': 'kite.zerodha.com',
      'cookie': '__cfduid=db8fb54c76c53442fb672dee32ed58aeb1521962031; _ga=GA1.2.1516103745.1522000590; _gid=GA1.2.581693731.1522462921; kfsession=CfawFIZq2T6SghlCd8FZegqFjNIKCYuO; public_token=7FyfBbbxhiRRUso3425TViK2VmVszMCK; user_id=XE4670',
      'x-csrftoken': '7FyfBbbxhiRRUso3425TViK2VmVszMCK',
  }
  
  response = requests.get('https://kite.zerodha.com/api/orders', headers=headers)
  
  
  x=str(response.content.decode("utf-8") )
  </code></pre>
  
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  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Unable to decode this. Tried unicode- utf 8 and various codes available on the stakoverflow but its failed.</p>