Hi,

I have below a simple snippet of code that should get from wiktionary, an existing page with its contents. However, I face a problem that the  the <textarea[^\>]*> </textarea> section in the received page is EMPTY !! Still, if I copy the same URL (http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%82%A2&action=edit) into my internet explorer 6.0, my resultant page indeed contains a textarea section with valid data….

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but any clue to solve the problem would be much appreciated !! Code snippet below – data contains resultant page with an EMPTY textarea section:

    headers = {}

    headers['Content-type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

    headers['User-Agent'] = 'PythonWikipediaBot/1.0'

    request = urllib2.Request(‘http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%82%A2&action=edit’, '', headers)

    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)

    data = response.read()

    return data

Regards,

Jacob