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Subject: Re: Downloading with lynx or w3m, how to download as is,
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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" "https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11/xcb-proto/files/patch-xcbgen_align.py?revision=425597&view=co"

> What to add to your /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg:
        
> PREFERRED_ENCODING:NONE

> HTH.

Yes, that worked, files in 
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11/xcb-proto/files
downloaded true, file sizes were correct, no gzip.

My thanks.

But this really needs to be better documented.

Tom