On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> The interwiki links are retrieved from page content. The page content has
> been received through a call to Special:Export.
>
>
> > I.e. would receiving no content (from the bot POV) produce that behavior?
> >
>
> Yes, the only reasonable explanation seems to be that the bot interprets
> what it gets from the server as an empty page.
>

So you screen-scrape? No surprise it breaks. Why? For example, due to
protocol-relative URLs. Or some other changes to HTML output. Why not just
use API?

-- 
Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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