I'm trying to implement this simple request in Drupal 7 on my local machine:

    $request = drupal_http_request('https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users?order=desc&sort=reputation&site=stackoverflow');
    $json_response = drupal_json_decode($request->data);

> For your information:
> 
>  - [drupal_http_request()][1] performs an HTTP request. 
>  - [drupal_json_decode()][2] converts an HTML-safe JSON string into its PHP equivalent.

From my side, the endpoint seems to work fine, as it sends a correct JSON result with all the users. 

But I still can't recover the data because it's like `$request->data` appears like blank despite the "4468 characters". That's wierd.

![enter image description here][3]

While I'm supposed to get something like that, with a very beautiful JSON string:

![enter image description here][4]

If I try with another API, like Twitter for example, it works fine (*sorry I put an old depreciated endpoint but it's not important, I get the data back anyway*) :

![enter image description here][5]

Does someone have a clue about that strange issue?


  [1]: https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!common.inc/function/drupal_http_request/7
  [2]: https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!common.inc/function/drupal_json_decode/7
  [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/SR4XN.png
  [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/IzMnF.png
  [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/rTQ43.png