Mechanize users - Mar 2009 - weird problem with cookies

Hi,

I wrote a script to login to some page. This works fine on my local machine,
but fails on my server. Both run Mechanize 0.9.0 and Nokogiri 1.2.1.
Turning debugging on I get for the succeeding run this pastie:
http://pastie.org/413049. For the failing run I get this one:
http://pastie.org/413052. Note the absence of the cookie request-header in
the failing run (from the succeeding run):
D, [2009-03-10T19:22:51.409080 #99291] DEBUG -- : request-header: cookie =>
orangeSessionID=SID%3D178CF332CDB2DAAB051AB16E7A675073227EE45A09DD8AF280A0BA2D64D03E2782EF51FFB3E0756D44AEC76F18668B182179A1A2F06C6C9D4B976C4A322EF6CF%26SID1%3DBA218F59EEEF8F541F9464732E16A148

How is this possible? Both save the cookie created in the previous request:
D, [2009-03-10T19:22:51.389433 #99291] DEBUG -- : saved cookie:
orangeSessionID=SID%3D178CF332CDB2DAAB051AB16E7A675073227EE45A09DD8AF280A0BA2D64D03E2782EF51FFB3E0756D44AEC76F18668B182179A1A2F06C6C9D4B976C4A322EF6CF%26SID1%3DBA218F59EEEF8F541F9464732E16A148

Where does Mechanize save it''s cookies? Maybe it is a permissions
issue? And
how does it determine when to send the cookie header?
I am at a loss and any help would be appreciated.

With kind regards,
Harm
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In the good tradition of the internet I''ll answer my own question.

After a couple of hours digging through the Mechanize source I found out
that the cookie set initially was deleted again because my server time was
an hour ahead. This particular cookie had an expiry time less than an hour
causing it to be deleted.

I fixed the problem by adjusting the server time. However I believe this
might be a problem when scraping in different time zones... Anyway make sure
the time on your server is correct.
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