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by eon1 3386 days ago
This link leads to an HTML full of garbage data that automatically downloads for me. What am I missing?
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This is old so I guess it was probably a momentary problem for me, but it works fine in Vivaldi 1.8.770.25 on Windows for me.
Yep, it worked fine when I got home, a few hours later. There was a while where it was "wonky".

The header looked fine, the body started like this: <body>^_<8b>^H^C¥XÛrÛ8^R}¶¾¢<87>^OñLE"}M%^N­]¯¥x<q¢<94>í©­ÔÖÖ^Vdb$Ê$Á^E@Ë<9a><9a><87>ù<88>ýÂý<92>= r7;<89>3µ~<90>%^BÝèËéÓ="" Æ?<8c>&ç·<9f>?<8d>)we1ìÅü<

Oddly, there was random entified data in there: &nbsp;^V[^P¿8û0þpöé&amp;&lt;

That's... absolutely bizarre, I've never seen anything like that before. Garbled characters, but the hex in chevrons I've never seen, that combined with an intact body and html entities too...

I guess the server sharted and that was the result? Haha.

The hex is just the way that the editor chose to display it. I think it's just random-seeming binary data.
It does that if I try to visit it in Pale Moon or Chrome on Windows, but loaded just fine in Firefox on my phone.
Same. I was using Chrome on Windows