I tried curl from terminal on Mac, also tried open-uri from a ruby on rails app.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Andrew Dunbar <hippytr...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 23 November 2010 03:07, Anand Ramanathan <rcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is intermittent - sometimes I see english characters, as expected. > > Sometimes, i see some junk characters - right now getting normal english > > characters, so cant show a sample of the junk. But this is definitely > > happening with this page - over the last 3 days off and on... > > Will send the garbled example if and when it happens again. > > You might be getting gzipped content sometimes. I had this issue with > certain Perl libraries. Normally you should get the content unzipped. > What programming language/framework etc have you been using? > > Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) > > > Thanks > > Anand > > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Betacommand <betacomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Can you define "garbled" > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Anand Ramanathan <rcan...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> I am not sure this is the right place for this issue, so please > redirect > >>> me if there is a better forum. > >>> I have been loading the wikipedia page for India programmatically as > part > >>> of testing my project. It was working fine, until recently. Now, most > of the > >>> time (but not always), loading it gives me garbled content. > >>> Other pages on wikipedia work fine both programmatically and from the > >>> browser. > >>> This particular page also loads fine from my browser (safari on mac) - > >>> but when I load it programmatically (using curl or open-uri from mac-os > >>> x), the content is garbled. > >>> I am using a user agent, but don't know what changed. > >>> I tried closing the bar on top which appeared recently (Jimmy Wales > >>> message), but even without that bar, it seems to be garbled. > >>> Any suggestions? > >>> Thanks > >>> Anand > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Mediawiki-api mailing list > >>> Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mediawiki-api mailing list > >> Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mediawiki-api mailing list > > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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