On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 11:46:51AM +0200, Daniel Stenberg via curl-users wrote: > If there is anyone around who uses --raw with a decent use case? I would not > mind learning how/why > because I'm about to break it:
Debian codesearch shows a number of projects using it: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+/curl.*--raw%5B%5E-%5D/&patternType=keyword&sm=0 xrootd (in tests): curl -v -L --raw -H "X-Transfer-Status: true" -H "TE: trailers" "${HOST}/$alphabetFilePath" --output - | tr -d '\r' > "$outputFilePath" uwsgi (in examples): # curl -D /dev/stdout -N --raw http://localhost:9090/ bashtop: curl -m 4 --raw -r 0-5000 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aristocratos/bashtop/master/bashtop curl -m 3 --raw https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aristocratos/bashtop/master/themes/index.txt curl -m 3 --raw "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aristocratos/bashtop/master/themes/${git_theme}"; Plus, many other hits via sourcegraph: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+/curl.*--raw%5B%5E-%5D/&patternType=keyword&sm=0 A few examples: $ curl -i -0 --raw http://fretboard.tardate.com/status.csv $ curl -v --raw --http2-prior-knowledge -X POST -H "content-type: application/grpc" -H "TE: trailers" --data-binary @hello.mspack --output - http://localhost:8080/greeter.api.GreeterApi/hello curl -s --raw https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcgov/DITP-DevOps/main/code/snippets/getDockerHost curl -s --raw -L "${kf_url}" Fortunately, the use of --raw in the vast majority of these examples looks on first glance to be completely wrong. It looks like people haven't read the documentation and assume that --raw is like jq's -r (raw strings) and are fortunate that the servers aren't actually using chunked encoding or gzip compression so the results just work. Some other examples appear to be for debugging purposes where --raw might show more information, but are likely to once again, be simply unneeded. Interestingly, a lot of these --raw uses are also using the equally unnecessary and potentially harmful -X as well showing how people are simply not understanding these options. Maybe you need another blog post like https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/11/unnecessary-use-of-curl-x/ but for --raw. Dan -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
