Weird returned page from curl cmd

[bruce]

Hi.

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...

Is there an attribute I should invoke that I missed. Didn't see anything
when I  scanned the man pages, or looked over google...

Thanks

[Thomas Waldecker]

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

[bruce]

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 <[e-mail]
> 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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[poma]

On 03.04.2013 12:53, bruce wrote:
> to all the curl/fedora guys...

What about the 49% curly women :)

poma