Re: [Mediawiki-api] Issue with loading specific page

On 23 November 2010 03:07, Anand Ramanathan <rcanand(a)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 <Betacommand(a)gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Can you define "garbled" >> >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Anand Ramanathan <rcanand(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-api mailing list >> Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api