`gzip: stdin: not in gzip format` when `curl -o`

Question

[root@localhost ~]# curl -o netatop-2.0.tar.gz --retry 3 http://www.atoptool.nl/download/netatop-2.0.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   324  100   324    0     0    606      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   606
[root@localhost ~]# tar -xvf netatop-2.0.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Then I tried to use chrome browser to download http://www.atoptool.nl/download/netatop-2.0.tar.gz,everything is ok.

What's the problem when I use curl -o netatop-2.0.tar.gz --retry 3 http://www.atoptool.nl/download/netatop-2.0.tar.gz?

Answer 1

From your test of the browser, how about using an option -L?

curl -L -o netatop-2.0.tar.gz --retry 3 http://www.atoptool.nl/download/netatop-2.0.tar.gz

Reference:

• -L, --location

If this didn't work, I apologize.