Mechanize users - Sep 2007 - Unable to scrap gmail.com - EOFError: End of file reached

Hi all,

I am so excited to use mechanize! It has opened a whole new world of
projects for me :)

I am trying to login into the Gmail.com server, as described in
http://schf.uc.org/articles/2007/02/14/scraping-gmail-with-mechanize-and-hpricot
but am running into a few issues...

irb(main):010:0> page = agent.submit form
EOFError: end of file reached
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `sysread''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:133:in `rbuf_fill''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in `rbuf_fill''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2017:in `read_status_line''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:2006:in `read_new''
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1047:in `request''
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.10/lib/mechanize.rb:514:in
`fetch_page''
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.10/lib/mechanize.rb:428:in
`post_form''
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mechanize-0.6.10/lib/mechanize.rb:247:in
`submit''
        from (irb):10
        from :0
irb(main):011:0>

When I do a submit on the form, I get this huge backtrace.

It would be great if anyone can help me out with this problem - some
pointers on what I am doing wrong - would be great. I would surely
find a solution :)

I have the following installed on my Ubuntu box
Ruby - 1.8.5
hpricot - 0.6
mechanize - 0.6.10
libopenssl-ruby 1.0.0
httpclient 2.1.1

Thanks in advance for the help :)

Regards,
Maku
http://www.makuchaku.info/blog

On 9/14/07, ???? ??? (makuchaku) <maku at makuchaku.info>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am so excited to use mechanize! It has opened a whole new world of
> projects for me :)
>
> I am trying to login into the Gmail.com server, as described in
>
http://schf.uc.org/articles/2007/02/14/scraping-gmail-with-mechanize-and-hpricot
> but am running into a few issues...
>
> irb(main):010:0> page = agent.submit form
> EOFError: end of file reached
Lots of googling revealed that its a known filed bug.
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=13319&group_id=1453&atid=5709

The bug report also suggests a solution - which rocks!

Thanks ''orangechicken'' :-)

--
Maku
http://www.makuchaku.info/blog