curl: output protocol headers using binary mode

Since protocol headers contain explicit line-endings there should
be no automatic conversion to ASCII text or CRLF line-endings.

This might break third party tools that already depend on this
behaviour. We might need to introduce an option to make this optional.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/tool_operate.c b/src/tool_operate.c
index 9c61623fe..0ecbcada9 100644
--- a/src/tool_operate.c
+++ b/src/tool_operate.c
@@ -369,6 +369,10 @@ static int operate_do(struct Configurable *config)
         heads.stream = newfile;
       }
     }
+    else {
+      /* always use binary mode for protocol header output */
+      set_binmode(heads.stream);
+    }
   }
 
   /* save the values of noprogress and isatty to restore them later on */