Re: [Bug-wget] Unexpected character on a downloaded page

[Ángel González]

On 14/06/14 20:31, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Why does wget 1.15 (and 1.12) insert  in several places in the copy 
> it makes of the following page:
>
> http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/helen-fisher-personality-type-test/?var_Explorer=1&var_Negotiator=1&var_Director=1&var_Builder=1&fromCGI=1 
Short answer: because that's what is at that page.

Long answer: That page contains several non-breaking spaces (ASCII 160, 
U+00A0) which when encoded as UTF-8 result in the bytes C2 A0. If you 
read the page as if it was iso-8859, you will view instead the byte C2 
as the glyph Â.

The page correctly states it's in utf-8:
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
so it should be read in utf-8 mode.

(wget is doing nothing here, it's just receiving bytes and storing in 
the file as-is)


> Also, why does it download the page to 
> 'index.html?var_Explorer=1&var_Negotiator=1&var_Director=1&var_Builder=1&fromCGI=1' 
> (i.e. with index.html prepended)?
That's because if you just downloaded 
http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/helen-fisher-personality-type-test/ 
(ie. no filename) it will save it as index.html
I think you could argue both ways for .


> Regards,
>
> Angel Tsankov
Best regards

Ángel González

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