retrieving gifs through HTTP from script

[Nico De Ranter <nico@sonycom.com>]

Hi,

I need to write a script dat will download a gif from an HTTP
server.  Unfortunately it turns out that when I telnet to the
webserver (port 80), issue "GET test.gif" and pour the output
into a file (making sure to remove the three header lines) the
gif turns out not to be useable.  My best guess is that HTTP
somehow encodes binary files when transferring them.
Does anybody know how to download a gif that way or is their
an app somewhere that will do this for me.

Thanks in advance,

Nico

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