I’m trying to open a web page using QNetworkAccessManager – and for some pages it works fine – while for others it does not. I tried setting a real browser user-agent, however it still doesn’t work for example, http://www.erepublik.com. Here’s the code:
QNetworkAccessManager *manager = new QNetworkAccessManager(this);
connect(manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply*)),
this, SLOT(replyFinished(QNetworkReply*)));
QNetworkRequest *request = new QNetworkRequest(QUrl("http://www.erepublik.com"));
request->setRawHeader( "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); "
"en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1" );
request->setRawHeader( "charset", "utf-8" );
request->setRawHeader( "Connection", "keep-alive" );
manager->get(*request);
…
void MainWindow::replyFinished(QNetworkReply *reply)
{
QString data = reply->readAll();
qDebug() << data;
}
The data is the following:
<html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.erepublik.com/en"/></head></html><html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.erepublik.com/en"/></head></html>
Now, what’s bugging me this works for a site like http://www.hardwarebase.net (data returns the normal HTML source), while it doesn’t work for eRepublik.
For those who are curious to know what I exactly want to do – I want to get the population number of countries from the eRepublik front page.
Any ideas why is this happening? Thanks in advance.
It looks like you’re getting the data correctly, it’s just that that particular URL just forwards you to a different one. Try http://www.erepublik.com/en (with the /en) instead.