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Difference in *.JS files opened with cURL and in Browser

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Curl just gets the data from the server, it does not interpret javascript. If you want to interpret the javascript from the webpage, you'll have to use a javascript engine as spidermonkey.

Guillaume Lebourgeois 2010-08-23 09:13:13

No I do not want to execute it, just to see the content of script. @Rup's idea with wget helped.

Jevgenijs Golojads 2010-08-23 10:07:26

Answer 2

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The server must be generating a different PH1 value based on some request parameters. You'll have to trace out the HTTP headers from both requests to see what causes the difference, e.g. setting up a local proxy such as http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ and making both requests through that.

It could be some combination of the user agent, accepts headers, cookies or the IP or country you're connecting from that's makign the difference - without knowing what the server logic is (or understanding what the different PH1 values mean) we can't really help you sorry.

Rup 2010-08-23 09:19:17

Indeed, must have to do with the request parameters everything that I've tried received the exact same data. PH1 is Base64 encoded, url quoted(WTF?) binary stuff.

Ivo Wetzel 2010-08-23 09:24:12

Yes, I meant to mention I'd tried using a browser and wget with varied user agent strings and got his first result every time.

Rup 2010-08-23 09:28:13

Thanks a lot Rup. wget is good solution.

Jevgenijs Golojads 2010-08-23 10:06:28

Oh, sorry, wasn't meaning to draw a distinction - I wouldn't expect wget to anything differently than curl, it's just I had wget installed here but not curl. But if it works, great!

Rup 2010-08-23 10:10:57

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