Thanks much. After some wiresharking, I found that google doesn't like the drakma user-agent and changing it to firefox did the trick.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Edi Weitz <e...@agharta.de> wrote: > You are not allowed to send arbitrary characters in the request line. > FWIW, I just tried your example with Firefox and this is what the > browser sends according to LiveHttpHeaders: > > http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%B2%D1%8B > > And Google returns the requested audio file. > > Edi. > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:08 AM, William Halliburton > <whallibur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello folks, > > > > I'm trying to use drakma to fetch urls that contain utf8 characters but > > HTTP-REQUEST automatically url encodes any non latin-1 ascii characters. > > > > On my cursory reading of the RFCs, this seems conforming behavor, but in > > this case it is definitely unwanted. > > > > For example, the following url > > > > http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=вы > > > > if entered directly into the browser correctly returns the text-to-speech > > audo file but > > > > when attempting to use HTTP-REQUEST, the url is being url encoded into > > > > http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%B2%D1%8B > > > > of which google does not url-decode and fails to return the correct data. > > > > So, for this case, the url-encoding is unwanted. > > > > I am willing to submit patch an additional argument into HTTP-REQUEST to > > disallow the encoding. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thank you, > > William > > > > _______________________________________________ > > drakma-devel mailing list > > drakma-devel@common-lisp.net > > http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/drakma-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > drakma-devel mailing list > drakma-devel@common-lisp.net > http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/drakma-devel >
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