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Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
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Won't Follow Google News Redirects #11

Closed tokyojimu closed 3 years ago

tokyojimu commented 3 years ago

Hi. I'm helping a blind friend who uses rdrview to read articles. It seems to follow some, but not all, redirects. In particular, Google News URLs don't work. Here's an example:

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.intellinews.com/turkey-s-karel-telco-equipment-maker-buys-local-peer-telesis-for-0-5mn-198953/%3Fsource%3Dcee-telecoms-media-it-newswatch&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTM2MzQwNzExNDcyNTAyMzUwMzMyGjg1NDM3YjRkY2FmN2QyZGE6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNH-3gYzxzSXyPZLrWczutgjqq3kag

rdrview reports "rdrview: document has no body tag".

eafer commented 3 years ago

It seems to follow some, but not all, redirects. In particular, Google News URLs don't work.

Thanks for the report. Those are HTML redirects, not HTTP redirects, so curl can't handle them. I just pushed a series of patches for this problem, let me know if they work for you. The url you linked to still won't look right, because of the paywall.

eafer commented 3 years ago

I believe this issue is solved, feel free to reopen if you disagree.