to all the curl/fedora guys...

the solution

The expansion isn't done by curl, but by the server based on the request
headers.

If I add: -H "Accept-Language: en-EN"
to the command line I get the expected "51%".

Fabian


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Thomas Waldecker <thomas.waldecker@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bruce,

Trying to do a simple curl fetch of a page. I get the data, but when I compare the page to what I see in the FF/Opera browser, I get a difference.

The key section on the browser is:

  51% Men, 49% Women

The same section from the curl is:
                51.02081505702209%
 Men,       
                48.97918494297791%
 Women
                                   
The actual test curl cmd I use is:

  curl -o "dee.txt" http://www.collegeview.com/schoolfacts/auburn-university-main-campus/figures

It appears that the "%" causes some sort of expansion/rounding to occur in the data...

I have never seen something like this. I just tried it myself. Even changed the user-agent but got the same result.

Thomas

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