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colewilson 12 hours ago [-]
Very neat! It's also possible to do this 100% statically without checking the user agent, by using alternate terminal buffers:
- `curl -L https://cole.ws` (my personal portfolio site) does this
It embeds the actual HTML inside an alternate terminal buffer (starting with `<!--\x1b[?1049h-->\r` and ending with `<!--\x1b[?1049l\x1b[3D\r`), and has the curl-able content appended to the end.
When you curl it, it still writes the HTML to your terminal, but immediately clears that buffer and writes the ANSI version to your real screen. In browsers, this ANSI stuff is hidden in an HTML comment. This is useful for static sites on GitHub pages or something.
G_o_D 7 hours ago [-]
Something like Emails ?
They can have both text and html version, its the client capabilities that determine what gets rendered like in cli mutt it will show text body, while gmail app/browser with rich documemt capability can render html
gfody 4 hours ago [-]
email clients support multipart/mixed, browsers never saw the need
classictraffic 13 hours ago [-]
Fun! I also did something similar with my personal website this summer:
- `curl listening.cailinpitt.com` shows what music I've been listening to recently
- `curl reading.cailinpitt.com` shows what books and articles I've been reading recently
frangonf 13 hours ago [-]
hey that's pretty curl
nullsanity 8 hours ago [-]
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abound 5 hours ago [-]
Funny timing! I just set up wthr.dev (a domain I've had for a while) like this, modeled off of wttr.in, but with simpler output. Usage is like:
curl https://wthr.dev/Washington,DC
The geocoding heuristics can be a bit wonky, but it works decent.
(also I have comically strict rate limits in place, so you probably don't want to use this. it's also running out of my basement)
jayknight 13 hours ago [-]
>If you were just trying to download the original HTML version of this page, add -H "X-Original: true" to the curl command to have the server respond exactly how it would've to any non-curl HTTP client.
It seems like "Accept: text/html" would be more standard
Yeah, I like this more. I want curl/wget to get the canonical representation by default.
ximm 2 hours ago [-]
But it is really up to the author to decide what "canonical" is. I serve my blog in markdown by default and only switch to html when it is explicitly requested.
basilikum 9 hours ago [-]
text/x-ansi is real? Wild
bingo-bongo 3 hours ago [-]
You can use whatever name you like and the “x-“ indicates it’s experimental.
An RFC exists that discourages the “x-“ naming, but it’s still very much in use in the wild.
jesse_dot_id 3 hours ago [-]
Hey, a fellow curl enthusiast :)
I made https://addr.fyi to return various information about IP addresses in plaintext.
Rohansi 13 hours ago [-]
FYI it works just fine on Windows if you run it from Terminal instead. As long as you don't use PowerShell mode in it.
zanderwohl 13 hours ago [-]
I think these are very fun and I would love to see more content you can visit with curl. I'm setting up a home chores + calendar + weather station that runs off my homeserver. I was contemplating making a plaintext version so very stupid devices could still read and display interesting data.
IncRnd 12 hours ago [-]
Also germane today a fix for curl/libcurl was released. The main vulnerability hinges upon using a malicious server to attack the client.
Not quite the same, but shameless plug for my polyglot website with a `curl | sh` mode: https://trey.sh
chengjunsuger 3 hours ago [-]
It's not available on Windows :( Can't open cause I use Windows.
screm 11 hours ago [-]
Does it help make your website more accessible to agents browsing the web?
bawolff 9 hours ago [-]
unlikely
djriley 12 hours ago [-]
Awesome! I always wanted to try browsing the web like RMS ;)
pizzaiolo 11 hours ago [-]
Jokes aside, RMS browses the web on GNU IceCat (Firefox fork), with the LibreJS extension on
mediumsmart 4 hours ago [-]
I have the Extended Support Release 115.17.0esr (64-bit) GNU IceCat gnu - 1.0 on my old intel mac and the nytpu.com displays fine, HN does too with hn.js blocked by LibreJS
When you curl it, it still writes the HTML to your terminal, but immediately clears that buffer and writes the ANSI version to your real screen. In browsers, this ANSI stuff is hidden in an HTML comment. This is useful for static sites on GitHub pages or something.
- `curl listening.cailinpitt.com` shows what music I've been listening to recently
- `curl reading.cailinpitt.com` shows what books and articles I've been reading recently
(also I have comically strict rate limits in place, so you probably don't want to use this. it's also running out of my basement)
It seems like "Accept: text/html" would be more standard
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...
... and then use `text/x-ansi` as the curl version, so other text-based clients could also fetch it:
wget -O - --header='Accept: text/x-ansi' nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18
See: https://www.digipres.org/formats/sources/wikidata/formats/#q...
An RFC exists that discourages the “x-“ naming, but it’s still very much in use in the wild.
I made https://addr.fyi to return various information about IP addresses in plaintext.
CVE-2026-92392
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/07/twenty-two-pending-cu...
Good Browser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)