Mechanize users - May 2007 - How to submit this form?

Hey all,

maybe I am missing the obvious again, but I can not submit the form on 
buy.com:

require ''rubygems''
require ''mechanize''

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.user_agent_alias = ''Mac Safari''
page = agent.get("http://www.buy.com")
search_form = page.forms.with.name("searchbox").first
p search_form.buttons

the last array is empty... OK, probably ''GO'' is not a button -
but then
what it is? How to submit such forms in general (which should be 
submitted with an image button, which is not really an image button...)

TIA,
Peter

Quoting Peter Szinek <peter at rubyrailways.com>:
> Hey all,
>
> maybe I am missing the obvious again, but I can not submit the form on
> buy.com:
>
> require ''rubygems''
> require ''mechanize''
>
> agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
> agent.user_agent_alias = ''Mac Safari''
> page = agent.get("http://www.buy.com")
> search_form = page.forms.with.name("searchbox").first
> p search_form.buttons
>
> the last array is empty... OK, probably ''GO'' is not a
button - but then
> what it is? How to submit such forms in general (which should be
> submitted with an image button, which is not really an image button...)
Peter,

My only suggestion is that you are probably going to use 
search_forms.submit.  View the source of the page, I believe the GO! is 
an image.

So fill the search box and use search_form.submit.

Mike B.

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