CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user3473243
user3473243

Reputation: 65

why webread fails but urlread works?

webread is supposed to be better than urlread, but the following website is not properly read by webread, but it can be read successfully by urlread

webread('https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.6.8cca20c0b2dbKh&id=567338689808&cm_id=140105335569ed55e27b&abbucket=9&skuId=3614502097821');

urlread('https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.6.8cca20c0b2dbKh&id=567338689808&cm_id=140105335569ed55e27b&abbucket=9&skuId=3614502097821');

Thank You.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 344

Answers (1)

WMML
WMML

Reputation: 33

I had similar issues and contacted Mathworks in May 2017. They admitted that sometimes urlread works better than webread because of 'server side issues which leads to webread not being able to correctly acquire the data from the server in question. The documentation basically just recommends using the newer functions, but since in this particular case there is a conflict between the newer functions and the server we should ignore that recommendation.'

Upvotes: 3

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