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_at_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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