Thanks much. After some wiresharking, I found that google doesn't like the drakma user-agent and changing it to firefox did the trick.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Edi Weitz edi@agharta.de wrote:

You are not allowed to send arbitrary characters in the request line. FWIW, I just tried your example with Firefox and this is what the browser sends according to LiveHttpHeaders:

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%B2%D1%8B

And Google returns the requested audio file.

Edi.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:08 AM, William Halliburton whalliburton@gmail.com wrote:

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Hello folks,

I'm trying to use drakma to fetch urls that contain utf8 characters but HTTP-REQUEST automatically url encodes any non latin-1 ascii characters.

On my cursory reading of the RFCs, this seems conforming behavor, but in this case it is definitely unwanted.

For example, the following url

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%B2%D1%8B

if entered directly into the browser correctly returns the text-to-speech audo file but

when attempting to use HTTP-REQUEST, the url is being url encoded into

http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ru&q=%D0%B2%D1%8B

of which google does not url-decode and fails to return the correct data.

So, for this case, the url-encoding is unwanted.

I am willing to submit patch an additional argument into HTTP-REQUEST to disallow the encoding.

Thoughts?

Thank you, William

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