Weird returned page from curl cmd

Thomas Waldecker thomas.waldecker at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 10:02:54 UTC 2013


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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