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

2017-04-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Jason Harris: > Some rationale for why gzip encoding is enabled: > https://davidwalsh.name/check-gzip > A look at the headers and how wget behaves: > wget --no-check-certificate -S --header="Accept-Encoding: gzip" >

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

2017-04-27 Thread Anatoly
> > URL where I was stung was > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11/xcb-proto/files > with two patch files in that directory. > Tested it with links 2.13. It works ok. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

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

2017-04-27 Thread 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

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

2017-04-25 Thread 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

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

2017-04-25 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
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

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

2017-04-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día lunes, abril 24, 2017 a las 11:48:32p. m. +, Thomas Mueller escribió: > Curl is tricky to get right from the command line, I tried. > > I have no recent experience with links. Should I build with graphics, > without graphics, or build links1? > > Lynx and w3m people hide the

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

2017-04-24 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
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

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

2017-04-24 Thread Anatoly
On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 23:48:32 + "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > I have no recent experience with links. Should I build with > graphics, without graphics, or build links1? If you wish text console only, no graphics needed. Under x11 it's nice fast simple graphical browser when

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

2017-04-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Anatoly: > If you wish console browser, try links > if you wish http get tool, try curl Curl is tricky to get right from the command line, I tried. I have no recent experience with links. Should I build with graphics, without graphics, or build links1? Lynx and w3m people hide the

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

2017-04-24 Thread Anatoly
If you wish console browser, try links if you wish http get tool, try curl On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 04:54:27 + "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > > If you're just trying to grab a file, fetch(1) may prove adequate. > > (It's in base.) > > > Peace, > > david > >- > > David H.

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

2017-04-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Thomas Mueller skrev: > > I don't use lynx (text-mode web browser) much, but have run into a problem > > that I never had before. > > Lynx, and also w3m, download what are supposed to be text files and then I > > see the gzip'ed version on the hard drive. > > Lynx used to download files as

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

2017-04-23 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
Thomas Mueller skrev: > > I don't use lynx (text-mode web browser) much, but have run into a problem > that I never had before. > Lynx, and also w3m, download what are supposed to be text files and then I > see the gzip'ed version on the hard drive. > > Lynx used to download files as is! > >

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

2017-04-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> If you're just trying to grab a file, fetch(1) may prove adequate. > (It's in base.) > Peace, > david >- > David H. Wolfskill I tried fetch, but got something entirely different, the stuff on the web page, but not the desired file. File compression, such as PKZIP, Infozip, gzip, bzip2,

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

2017-04-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
I don't use lynx (text-mode web browser) much, but have run into a problem that I never had before. Lynx, and also w3m, download what are supposed to be text files and then I see the gzip'ed version on the hard drive. Lynx used to download files as is! I looked through "man lynx", also