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SOMEDAY Handle Content-Encoding: gzip HTML files that wget doesn’t decompress

wget does not seem to automatically decompress HTML files that are served like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 14606
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:54:06 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Last-Modified: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:53:57 GMT

The resulting file wget saves to disk is still gzipped, so tar creates an archive of a single gzipped HTML file, and when the tar is unpacked, the result is a gzipped HTML file. Then, browse-url-default-browser, on my system, calls xdg-open, which shows the gzipped file in a compressed file viewer, like Ark, even though at least some browsers can display the gzipped HTML file directly.

So it still works, but it’s a bit confusing.

  • I don’t understand why wget (and curl!) save the gzipped HTML instead of decoding it. I can’t find any explanation in their man pages.
  • It’s annoying that it’s not opened by the browser, even when the browser can handle it.