You can read my blog posts using curl
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You can read my blog posts using curl
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Re: You can read my blog posts using curl
#2Cute idea, but the first one I picked didn't work very well: https://mahdi.blog/raw/mathematical-induction-proving-tiling...
Re: You can read my blog posts using curl
#3Or use:
lynx -dump
elinks -dump
(not the same thing of course, but it doesn't require anything from the server other than reasonable HTML)
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Re: You can read my blog posts using curl
#5Why not use user agent detection (and maybe have a header/footer that says "This page has been formatted for readability based on your User Agent: curl").
I'm guessing the blog is made by a static site generator, so the above is harder than it seems. I suppose one could add a reverse proxy that redirects to /raw/$PAGE when it sees "curl".
Re: You can read my blog posts using curl
#6Fun idea.
If the site is not a static one, you could check the request's User Agent server-side, and return the raw version directly (or redirect to /foo/raw) if the UA contains 'curl' or 'wget'.
If the site is static and you are able & willing to change your vhost config, you could detect the UA too, and redirect to /foo/raw.
Just a few ideas. This is a fun little project you've got here. Well done.
Re: You can read my blog posts using curl
#7Also works with https://terminal.news
Re: You can read my blog posts using curl
#8Two months ago I hacked something like that for my blog:
curl https://fuse.pl/beton/10print.html # with code highlighting
curl https://fuse.pl/beton/cegla.html # just proseRe: You can read my blog posts using curl
#9Why not use user agent detection (and maybe have a header/footer that says "This page has been formatted for readability based on your User Agent: curl"). I'm guessing the blog is made by a static site generator, so the above is harder than it seems. I suppose one could add a reverse proxy that redirects to /raw/$PAGE when it sees "curl".
User-agent specific stuff is pretty hacky in general. I at least would avoid it unless I've tried everything else first.
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#10In these comments people have suggested to check for the User-Agent, but wouldn't it make more sense to check if the Accept header mentions text/html? I realize that curl sends "Accept: /", but if you wanted to see a page in plain text, you would have to pass -H "Accept: text/plain". I think that uses HTTP much more like it was intended.