Bug#569191: libwww-perl: GET behavior changed in squeeze: URL stopped working

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Wed Feb 10 18:05:59 UTC 2010


On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:16:03 +0100, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:

> we use GET to download a wikipage and further process the data to
> prepare the manual of Debian Edu. The command:
> 	GET "http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/AllInOne?action=raw"
> works fine in Lenny, but stopped working in squeeze where "You are not
> allowed to access this!" is returned.

That seems to be a change on wiki.debian.org, I see the same with
wget and curl:

#v+
gregoa at belanna:/tmp$ GET "http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/AllInOne?action=raw"
You are not allowed to access this!
gregoa at belanna:/tmp$ wget "http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/AllInOne?action=raw"
--2010-02-10 19:01:40--  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/AllInOne?action=raw
Resolving wiki.debian.org... 93.94.130.161
Connecting to wiki.debian.org|93.94.130.161|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 FORBIDDEN
2010-02-10 19:01:40 ERROR 403: FORBIDDEN.

gregoa at belanna:/tmp$ curl "http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/AllInOne?action=raw"
You are not allowed to access this!
gregoa at belanna:/tmp$ 
#v-

What works is specifying a user-agent:

#v+
gregoa at belanna:/tmp$ wget --user-agent="Iceweasel" "http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/AllInOne?action=raw"
--2010-02-10 19:04:53--  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/AllInOne?action=raw
Resolving wiki.debian.org... 93.94.130.161
Connecting to wiki.debian.org|93.94.130.161|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1157 (1.1K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `AllInOne?action=raw'

100%[================================================>] 1,157       --.-K/s   in 0s      

2010-02-10 19:04:53 (17.1 MB/s) - `AllInOne?action=raw' saved [1157/1157]

gregoa at belanna:/tmp$ 
#v-


Cheers,
gregor

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