bruce <badouglas_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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%
[...]
>
> 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...

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

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