Simply downloads bytes from a URL
Webcat can support (almost) any datatype that the target server will provide.
(Technically, webcat does not know anything about the data it receives.)
Webcat takes a third argument as shorthand to make it easier to request popular formats from the server, but webcat is in no way limited to these formats:
csv: "text/csv" txt: "text/plain" xml: "text/xml" json: "application/json" html: "text/html" binary: “application/octet-stream"
The default is TXT, so for example, this will send “Content-Type: text/plain”
C:> webcat “http://www.anyplaceyouwant.com/this/is/a/test”
Which is the same as this
C:> webcat “http://www.anyplaceyouwant.com/this/is/a/test” txt
Additionally, rather than using the shorthand, you can explicitly specify any Content-Type string you want, such as
C:> webcat “http://www.anyplaceyouwant.com/this/is/a/test” “text/html”
Or
C:> webcat “http://www.anyplaceyouwant.com/this/is/a/test” “something/elseentirely”