Re: [Bug-wget] retrieval failure:Forbidden? for UTF-8-URL in wget that works on FF and IE

[L Walsh]

Tim Rühsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 June 2016 11:47:46 L. A. Walsh wrote:
> > I tried:
> >
> > wget "http://translate.google.com/#ja/en/クイーンズブレイド・メインテーマＢ";
> >
> > But get a an Error "403: Forbidden" (tried w/ and w/o proxy) -- same.
> >
> > But cut/paste the same URL into IE11 or
> > PaleMoon (a 64-bit FF derivative), and it works.
> >
> > Any idea why or what I might do to get it to work?
>
> Basically, from '#' on (fragment part of URL) nothing is relevant for the HTTP 
> request. This is what Firefox 46 sends to localhost:8080 (I started a netcat 
> 'nc -l -p 8080' to make sure).
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Sounds like FF46 is broken.

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        It is in PaleMoon, IE11 and GoogleChrome.  All of them fetch
the URL when pasted into the address box.  

> If I do a 'telnet translate.google.com 80' and paste the above (just with 
> 'Host: translate.google.com' and an empty line at the end):
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AFAIK, telnet doesn't support anything but ascii.



> My guess is, that google does not like User-Agent 'wget', now trying with 
> Firefox's User-Agent:
> $ wget -d -U "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 
> Firefox/46.0" http://translate.google.com
>
> And zack ... that works. Give it a try.
>
> Regards, Tim
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        Oh frack!   I thought the days of client-censoring were over
when MS stopped doing it.   Now Google is the new MS??  Frack.
That sucks.