No, it has been demonstrated that servers can detect whether a request is being downloaded or piped to a shell, so they can vary the response accordingly, sendi

No, it has been demonstrated that servers can detect whether a request is being downloaded or piped to a shell, so they can vary the response accordingly, sending safe-looking content to a user who's inspecting it, and sending malicious content to a shell. https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/ https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b... `curl | sh` is a terrible anti-pattern. It should never be encouraged.