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

[Thomas Mueller]

> I have never seen lynx compress an uncompressed file.  However, if lynx sends a header that it can _accept_ gzip encoding, which I believe it might, the webserver can easily gzip the contents to save bandwidth.  lynx could
possibly be saving that compressed content to disk, with a .gz extension...
  
> Personally, I use elinks (and used to be its FreeBSD maintainer) way more often than lynx.
  
> Can you send an URL to recreate the problem?

URL where I was stung was
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11/xcb-proto/files
with two patch files in that directory.

I was thinking about using links or elinks instead of lynx, but textproc/docbook-tools uses www/lynx as a dependency.

If I don't want links' crude graphics implementation, elinks might be smaller and good enough.

Building links with directfb option can take a long time; one is better off with Firefox or Seamonkey.

I also emailed the upstream maintainer, Thomas Dickey (dickey at invisible-island.net).

Tom