While you are right that they don't encode properly, it seems there was an existing solution: the puppet app recognizes an 'Accept: s' header that means it'll return the file as-is.

The working example would be: 
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $ay = HTTP::Headers->new; $ay->head
+er('Accept' => 'YAML'); my $as = HTTP::Headers->new; $as->header('Acc
+ept' => 's');
my @osini; my @partini;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new('GET', "https://$server/production/file_m
+etadata/test/hm.jpg", $ay);
      my $res = $ua->request($req);
      die "Something went wrong: $res->status_line" unless $res->is_su
+ccess;
      @osini = YAML::Load($res->content."\n");
      my $md5 = $osini[0]->{checksum}; $md5 =~ s/^{md5}//;
      $req = HTTP::Request->new('GET', "https://$server/production/fil
+e_bucket_file/md5/$md5", $as);
      $res = $ua->request($req);
      open AAA,'>aaa.jpg'; binmode AAA; print AAA $res->content;

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In reply to Re^4: Load large(ish) files with YAML? by rgcosma
in thread Load large(ish) files with YAML? by rgcosma

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