[Mechanize-users] Does Amazon.com blocks scraping?

Jimmy McGrath
2010-01-25T12:35:03Z

Hi Felipe,

I was unable to reproduce your "Amazon closing the connection" issue.
Could you perhaps post a sequence of commands from irb that can
consistently reproduce it?

Also, what happens if you change the user agent alias before the first
connection with Amazon? If you do not experience the disconnection
problem, is there any reason why changing the user agent before first
contact is not a satisfactory solution?

Cheers,

-Jimmy