Virginian
2008-Feb-29 07:12 UTC
mechanize problem with weird field names that contain colons such as "_ctl0:ContentPlaceHolder1:tbLastName"
Ruby is blowing up on me when I use fieldnames with colons such as
"_ctl0:ContentPlaceHolder1:tbLastName"
you can irb session looks like: this which you can copy and paste to
try it as the site is on the web.
http://pastie.caboo.se/159184
require ''rubygems''
require ''mechanize''
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page =
agent.get(''https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfVerification.aspx'')
pp page
# from the output I see that the form name is {name "aspnetForm"}
sss_form = page.form(''aspnetForm'')
pp sss_form
# I prints the form which I can see a few filed names including
# #<WWW::Mechanize::Form::Field:0x110f224 @name="InitialDay",
@value="29">
# and another one for this sample
# #<WWW::Mechanize::Form::Field:0x110d348
@name="_ctl0:ContentPlaceHolder1:tbLastName", value="">
sss_form.InitialDay = "1"
# => "1"
sss_form._ctl0:ContentPlaceHolder1:tbLastName = ''Smith''
#SyntaxError: compile error
#(irb):14: syntax error, unexpected '':'', expecting $end
#sss_form._ctl0:ContentPlaceHolder1:tbLastName = ''Smith''
# ^
# from (irb):14
# from :
#
#
# and so it blows up
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best Regards - Charles
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