Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/tats/w3m/issues/307

When trying to open github.com URLs, w3m gives

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

In a comment in the upstream bug, Rene Kita says that the cause is
that "GitHub is ignoring the http/1.0 request and sending an http/1.1
response which w3m cannot parse" and provides a workaround consisting
in using a CGI script that invokes curl on the URL (via site-specific settings).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.29-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-8
ii libgc1 1:8.2.8-1
ii libgpm2 1.20.7-11+b2
ii libssl3t64 3.5.0-2
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1

Versions of packages w3m recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20250419

Versions of packages w3m suggests:
pn brotli <none>
ii bzip2 1.0.8-6
pn cmigemo <none>
pn compface <none>
ii curl 8.13.0-5
ii dict 1.13.1+dfsg-1
ii dict-wn 1:3.0-39
ii dictd 1.13.1+dfsg-1
pn libsixel-bin <none>
ii mailcap 3.74
ii man-db 2.13.1-1
ii media-types 13.0.0
ii sensible-utils 0.0.25
ii w3m-el 1.4.632+0.20221206.2328.4f27810-0.2
ii w3m-img 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1
ii wget 1.25.0-2
ii xdg-utils 1.2.1-2
ii xsel 1.2.1-1

-- no debconf information

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