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by ubertaco 1557 days ago
I did a `curl https://plaintextsports.com/mls/standings` and, to my surprise, got an HTML response back (rather than just plaintext data).

Seems like this isn't actually plaintext (as in the mimetype `text/plain`), but is instead just "minimalist-aesthetic sports" (with the caveat that for some reason there's CSS styling to make the font unreadably small at 2560x1440, which was what led me to try `curl` in the first place, assuming that since it'd be plaintext, I could just get the data in plaintext without any extra CSS formatting making it hard to read).
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teaearlgraycold 1556 days ago 

    $ curl -X GET https://plaintextsports.com/ -H 'Accept: text/plain' | head
    <html translate="no">
      <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta name="google" content="notranslate" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
        <title>Plain Text Sports</title>
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stevage 1556 days ago
Yep, seems we're all unclear on what the actual intent is here since it seems to fail most of the use cases that "plain text" brings to mind.
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