Downloading with lynx or w3m, how to download as is, without gratuitous gzip

Dewayne Geraghty dewaynegeraghty at gmail.com
Tue Apr 25 02:46:00 UTC 2017


Yes, I'm with Anatoly.  Some browsers accept encrypted or compressed
content and then try to display it. I've tried lynx (GPL2),wget (GPL3) but
curl (MIT) with minimum options does the trick nicely.
I use curl in place of fetch, so in a make.conf there's
FETCH_CMD= /usr/local/bin/curl --create-dirs --connect-timeout 10 -m 240
--retry 1 -C - --ipv4 -O -o -

curl is harder to master than wget ;)

Hopefully this helps :)


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