Thankfully, curl can't be tricked in such a manner. fetch http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html through curl: jcs@air:~> curl

Thankfully, curl can't be tricked in such a manner. fetch http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html through curl: jcs@air:~> curl -s http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html there is really nothing here, i can promise you that. but you just aren't seeing the content. jcs@air:~> curl -s http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html | vis View source in Firefox. \^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H\^H[...]