On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, whimsica_at_aol.com wrote:

> When I do this it ends up giving me back some binary code.

Because wikipedia.org is not being nice. They provide the data with
"Content-Encoding: gzip" meaning the data is compressed - without the client
asking for it - so it needs to be uncompressed!!

> Any suggestions on options for dealing with a redirect like this?

(Those links aren't redirects at all.)

You should enable libcurl's automatic decompression by using the
CURLOPT_ENCODING option.

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