On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Michael Hecker wrote:

> I would like to download a gif file from a webserver. What do I have to do?
>
> When I take my html-communication-method for a gif-file-request I get
> something like: GIF89addÄ

You download a gif the exact same way you download HTML. To libcurl there's no
difference. That "GIF89" text is the start of the binary gif image.

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