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Re:Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore by baby on Saturday June 17, 2017 @08:06AM (#14575530)
> I guess curl will incorrectly recognize the binary as text.

This doesn't sound like a really good test.

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Re:Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore by raimue on Saturday June 17, 2017 @08:17AM (#14575568)
Looking for a NUL byte is the standard test that is also widely used by other tools such as grep or diff.
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Re:Curl doesn’t spew binary anymore by baby on Saturday June 17, 2017 @09:50AM (#14575882)
Interesting, I'm going to try to implement that in my file parser.
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