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

[Thomas Mueller]

> Thomas Mueller skrev:

> > Documentation on Lynx and w3m are awful hard to find!

> > I couldn't find anything on auto_uncompress or anything else that might be put in ~/.w3m/config.

> > If the file on the server is already compressed, for instance a tarball, then I want to download it that way.

> > But a browser/downloader has no proper business compressing a file to be downloaded.

> For w3m you can set accept_encoding. Default is

> accept_encoding gzip, compress, bzip, bzip2, deflate

> Try to remove gz, bzip, bzip2 or set it to "".

> If you think this is a bug you should report it upstream:

> https://github.com/tats/w3m

> Herbert

I looked through w3m documentation and found nothing on accept_encoding.

Their website suggests that w3m is more of a pager than a web browser.

Elvis (enhanced vi clone) is/was also a rudimentary text-mode web browser.

I don't install w3m explicitly, only if it is pulled in by the ports system as a dependency.

Maybe I will take the same approach regarding lynx?

I intend to check a NetBSD installation with lynx to see if that misbehaves the same way regarding gratuitous, unwanted gzip compression of downloads.

I haven't used links in some time; remember a build on FreeBSD took six hours, but that was with DirectFB on a computer with 256 MB RAM.

I think I need to email dickey at invisible-island.net .

Tom