The article states GitHub gists add the correct content-type header based on file extension which is untrue. curl -i https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mikek

The article states GitHub gists add the correct content-type header based on file extension which is untrue. curl -i https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mikeknoop/e7b3c526738b66950eb4/raw/1d46d432ed380abc986cf15028221318b836395b/text.xml // other headers... Content-Type: text/plain // headers and body... There is a great service call rawgit[1] that does actually add the correct headers. [1] https://rawgit.com/ https://rawgit.com/