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 <hippytrail@gmail.com> wrote:
On 23 November 2010 03:07, Anand Ramanathan <rcanand@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@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you define "garbled"
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Anand Ramanathan <rcanand@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
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