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Comment #1 − request failed

by unknown -

Hi
I am trying to achieve the same goal and attempted your solution.
Did you encounter any issues where the perl script failed to be able to run html2wiki on the generated url?

i am using ActivePerl and running this via the windows command prompt.
I have verified the url exists by running: explorer http://www….

After spending much time pulling down all the necessary perl modules i get this error:

$> perl wikifetch.pl

Reading config…
Pending pages:
Configuring_Eclipse_developmentDone reading config
Fetching/processing: http://…valid url
request for <http://…valid url> failed at wikifetch.pl line 113

the line it ocmplains about is:
my $wiki_text = $wc->html2wiki( uri => $page_name );

can you suggets a html command line test i can run to similate this from the command line?
my perl knowledge is not good.

thanks

Tom

Updated by unknown -

#2 − Also kind of lacking Perl knowledge…

by Marco -

…I’m not the guy who originally wrote this article, but I’ll do what I can! ;-)

The complaint that the “request for <http://…valid url> failed” seems to indicate a url-resolution problem, but it’s hard to tell because the error message doesn’t specify the exact problem.

Are you sure that the uri is valid?
Can you ping it?
Are you sure that the HTML::WikiConverter plugin and dialect are installed?

#3 − Well…

by Patrick -

…as the guy who had written it: The URI printed out by line 112 (Fetching/processing…) is the URI that actually will be fetched.

Some additional things that could go wrong:

The wiki is password protected. If so you might get around the issue by setting your URI to http://user:password@thesite.com
The server redirects your browser after accessing the URI. I don’t know if perl’s HTTP library handles that.

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