Lol.

From reading up on it, it sounds like they've been screen scraping us for years and the Vector switchover killed them. Somebody should clue them in to the API ;-)

Silly Apple <3

Yeah, unfortunately those Dictionary.app deployments are out there everywhere and we have no clue how easy it would actually be to get Apple to push a fix on their end -- the scraping is done from JS that's built-in to the app, which is a default system component.

Worst case, maybe we can slip in some JS to hotpatch their JS that does the screen-scraping. ;)

As far as I know, dictionary.app has no unique useragent string. It uses the default Webkit UA. Perhaps there is something else in the headers, but it is a tad difficult to check.

User-agent wouldn't be feasible anyway; it fetches the regular URLs so would get cached pages.

Mac OS X Update 10.6.5:

• resolve an issue with Wikipedia information not displaying correctly in Dictionary

Woohooo ! Will need to test myself, but sounds promising.

Confirmed to work.

Solution they chose: GET /w/index.php?title=pagename&useskin=monobook HTTP/1.1\r\n

ah well.

Apparently they've redone it to something else.. I've got someone poking someone else at Apple to find out what they've done now...

Ah, so this might be a temporary measure ?

One would hope they'd switched to using the API...