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by mschuster91 4789 days ago
Ah, that helps. I wonder why the gzip is not done automatically by curl/wget...
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Yeah, it confused me at first as well, but I ran `file` to see what was going on and that clued me in.
It will if you pass in --compressed flag, e.g.:

   curl --compressed "http://cdn.unrealengine.com/html5-4c0913f/UDKGame_Data.js" -H "Referer: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/" -O