Fix EPS (Epsom and Ewell) scraper#365
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…nt block democracy.epsom-ewell.gov.uk returns valid ModGov XML to standard HTTP clients (curl, Chrome) but wreq's Firefox133 TLS fingerprint times out from Lambda — the server's WAF drops the connection during TLS handshake before returning a response. Playwright uses Chromium's standard Chrome TLS fingerprint, which passes the WAF. The endpoint serves valid councillor XML once the TLS block is bypassed.
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Re-scrape after 58e7606Initial fix: added Raw XML from
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What broke
Epsom and Ewell's ModernGov endpoint (
democracy.epsom-ewell.gov.uk) serves valid councillor XML to standard HTTP clients (curl returns HTTP 200 with full XML in ~2.4s) but wreq's Firefox133 TLS fingerprint times out from Lambda — the server's WAF drops the connection during the TLS handshake before sending a response, consistent with the same pattern seen on NWM, NYE, LBH, and DAC.What was fixed
http_lib = "playwright"— Playwright uses Chromium's standard Chrome TLS fingerprint, which passes the WAF. Noverify_requestsflag is needed since the server's cert is valid.Scrape results
Raw XML confirmed 35 councillors with photo URLs. Emails are on individual councillor detail pages and will be fetched during the full scrape.
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