On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? > Basically, because most of the core functionality comes from before the API came into existence. At least, that would be my explanation. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
