Re: [Lynx-dev] How to keep dumps more pure?

[Andrew Pennebaker]

Oh doy, the -source flag. Works for lynx and links!

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 2:10 PM Andrew Pennebaker <
address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I enjoy using curl, wget, and lynx to dump files. However, lynx appears to
> modify the contents slightly which throws off checksums.
>
> This happens, for example with text media such as
>
> lynx -dump https://icanhazip.com/ >ip.txt
>
> Here, an additional blank line is inserted into the stdout stream after
> the main IP content body. diff confirms that this file is not exactly the
> same output as curl or wget produce.
>
> I tried substituting the default lynx user agent string for "curl", in
> case the server was responding differently. But I am getting the extra
> padding with that as well.
>
> Could we drop this extra padding? Or, if backwards compatibility is a
> grave concern, offer a command line flag to keep dump media bit-for-bit
> intact with the HTTP server response body?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>


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Cheers,
Andrew