is gnupg can retrieve only ascii keys from http?

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:51:27AM +0300, Maxim Britov wrote:
> gpg can retrieve only ascii keys from http?
> 
> $ LANG= gpg --keyserver http://www.clamav.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg --recv-keys 0x985A444B
> gpg: requesting key 985A444B from http server www.clamav.net
> gpgkeys: key 985A444B not found on keyserver
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: Total number processed: 0
> 
> I can get this key with wget.
> 
> For example:
> 
> $ LANG= gpg --keyserver http://pgpru.com/contacts/keys/0x84F8C181.asc --recv-keys 0x84F8C181
> gpg: requesting key 84F8C181 from http server pgpru.com
> gpg: key 84F8C181: "Kent <lazy_kent land ru>" not changed
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:              unchanged: 1

That's correct.  At some point, I may change this, but it is not
currently a feature.

David