Fix NYE (North Yorkshire) scraper#364
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North Yorkshire's edemocracy server fails from Lambda with a TCP connection timeout during the TLS handshake — wreq's Firefox133 fingerprint is being dropped/reset before the server responds. Locally with curl (system SSL) the endpoint returns 200 OK with valid XML. Playwright (Chromium) uses a Chrome TLS fingerprint that passes the WAF, bypassing the block.
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What broke
North Yorkshire's edemocracy server (
edemocracy.northyorks.gov.uk) fails from Lambda with aConnectionResetError(errno 110, ETIMEDOUT) during the TLS handshake — the server accepts the TCP connection but drops it during the SSL exchange, consistent with WAF-level TLS fingerprint filtering on wreq's Firefox133 client hello. From a clean IP with system SSL (curl), the endpoint returns HTTP 200 with valid ModGov XML.What was fixed
http_lib = "playwright"— Playwright uses Chromium's standard Chrome TLS fingerprint, bypassing the server-side WAF that blocks wreq's fingerprint. Chromium also uses the system cert store (trusting the server's valid cert), so noverify_requestsflag is needed.Scrape results
Cannot run locally (TLS inspection proxy in the build environment). The endpoint returns HTTP 200 with valid councillor XML from a clean IP.
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