Hi,
* zanzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have tried to wget http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main but all
> I seem to get is a file with unreadable characters (and not the HTML file
> I'm after).
> Is it because of some perl-script on the site?
This perl script assume HTTP/1.1 and gzip support for any request :(
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:25:09 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.30
Set-Cookie: adbuin=1224516309-mqMQ; path=/; expires=Thu, 18-Oct-2018 15:25:09
GMT
Cache-control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Expires: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:25:09 GMT
X-Cache: MISS from anidb.net
Connection: close
Content-Encoding: gzip
^^^^^
Content-Length: 5489
You can manually decompress the data:
$ wget "http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main"; -O page.gz
$ gzip -d page.gz > page.html
Sincerly,
Saint Xavier.
