Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:23:24 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloading with lynx or w3m, how to download as is, without gratuitous gzip Message-ID: <69.B4.29375.516BDF85@dnvrco-omsmta02>
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> > 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!
> > I looked through "man lynx", also /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg, and couldn't figure how to disable the annoying, gratuitous gzip.
> > Mozilla Seamonkey and Firefox can download straight without altering.
> > My previous experience was that Lynx was trustworthy and would download files as is.
> For w3m you can try to set 'auto_uncompress 1' in ~/.w3m/config.
> Herbert
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.
I might try on a NetBSD installation where I believe I installed lynx to compare the download automatic gzip behavior.
Tom
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