similar to: https with certificates

mechanize version 0.6.6 has been released! http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/ The Mechanize library is used for automating interaction with websites. Mechanize automatically stores and sends cookies, follows redirects, can follow links, and submit forms. Form fields can be populated and submitted. Mechanize also keeps track of the sites that you have visited as a history. Changes: =

Hi, I''m using Mechanize, and I''ve developed a lot of code around it. I''d like to be able to check the Etag header during a get to see if the page has changed, as well as some other http header information. Can I do that without hacking Mechanize myself? Does anyone have any examples of how to do this? William

Hi all, I''ve been using mechanize for a while and it rocks. Docs are pretty clear and so far I''ve been able to do it on my own. However, I''m stuck in a weird situation in a script to download my contact list from hotmail. I''ve used Firebug to check all urls, and tested it by hand while logged in via browser. Even in the script everything works well until the

I found an interesting page today that I was trying to script against. The server returns a 404 with content and the page just works normally in firefox despite the 404. Mechanize raises an exception on it though. I''m working on a test case now.

I am new to Mechanize and was wondering if there was a built-in method to get the elements that are on the page that are not part of a form. A couple of examples would be my banking site lists my entries and I want them to go into an array so that I can handle them. Or another site I use, does some categorization for me and I would like to manipulate it and present it differently to a user.

So I found myself wanting to call Mechanize#get with a hash for arguments like this: WWW::Mechanize.new(''http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/'', {:method => ''flickr.auth.getFrob''... }) Granted, it looks like this isn''t supported but it led me to what looks like a bug. Namely that get calls fetch_page(abs_uri, request, cur_page, &block)

I knew that hpricot was a dependency, but hoe and rubyforge....is this right? Version 0.6.9 for ruby Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

hi, a potential mechanize user here. i''ve looked at the API but it''s not clear what capacity there is to arbitrarily set the headers - does mechanize allow for this? mechanize is clearly great for web browsing, but i also need to construct get and post requests from scratch. i''ve looked at net:http, libcurl, openuri, but mechanize seems simpler and more functional than

Hey everyone, I''ve been refactoring Mechanize for an 0.7.0 release. Basically I''m trying to clean the code up and there are a few features that I think are unnecessary, but I would like to ask people first. 1) REXML as a parser. I want to remove support for REXML. I don''t use it. Hpricot seems to do everything I need. 2) 1.8.2 thru 1.8.4 support

How do you make get the page when using basic_auth? Below is code, I am getting a 401 error. I am not sure if the basic _auth comes before the agent.get. I will appreciate any help. require ''mechanize'' require ''logger'' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new {|a| a.log = Logger.new(STDERR) } page = agent.get(''https://brewx.qualcomm.com/developer'' )

I''m trying to use mechanize against a site that has four fields in the form. However, those four fields have to be filled in order. So putting something in field one, populates the second field drop down. So I''m thinking that I''ll probably have to call the page multiple times? What sort of things should I be doing to figure out how to interact with this page.

Hello, when trying to access a certain HTML-frame, I get: "in `request'': Unhandled response (WWW::Mechanize::ResponseCodeError)" and the page returns: "400 Bad Request" * Why? * How to solve this? With browser, it works. In the logs below, I marked 4 lines with "***", where I see possible differences in the URI. But I don''t know, if this is

I got this in one of my pages, and I''m not exactly sure what it means. ideas? Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

I have a site that I don''t think "returns" a basic_auth request, but is able to use basic_auth. In the past on 0.6.8, I could use the following code: require ''rubygems'' # gem ''mechanize'', ''=0.6.8'' require ''mechanize'' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new agent.basic_auth("username", "password")

Trying to submit a form is resulting in the following error: >> page = agent.submit(f, f.buttons.first) query: "action=start&quick=Y&clientApp=0&clientID=MCO" Net::HTTP::Post: /dealerApply/controller.jsp using cookie: JSESSIONID=GJ4NCvGJDTlrvrKsLw17hZ3FnlXFdVkvB5hh1jLkHKcH4Tn27371!-538794652 request-header: accept-language => en-us,en;q0.5 request-header: connection

Hi all, I''ve a problem when submitting a form : the URL seems to be invalid. I really don''t see the way I should try to solve that problem. I searched on the web, but didn''t found any kind of that problem. Here is the code : require ''mechanize'' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new page =

I''m trying to submit data in JSPWiki (edit page). I can read the data in the form, but nothings get saved when I submit the page. Cancel doesn''t work either. I don''t get any errors. There is no JavaScript used to submit the form. After I''m logged in I do the following: def save(page, content) @agent.get(@base_url + "Edit.jsp?page=#{page}")

Hey all, Found a email thread from Jan 2007 discussing the inability to set request headers (like ETag and If-Modified-Since) through the API, and this is something that''s bothering me a bit. Currently the "way" to do this is to subclass Mechanize and override set_headers(). That seems fine for headers that you''d like to send in every request or for classes of request,

Hey Aaron, I''m just thinking out loud here, but have you considered the possibility of using the Rhino [1] library to implement javascript support in mechanize? It''d create a jruby dependency for that feature, but still. Just thought I''d bring it up while I was thinking about it. -Mat [1] http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

Hi, Does anyone have the formula for getting logged into LinkedIn? Here''s my current attempt: require ''rubygems'' require ''mechanize'' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new home_page = agent.get(''http://www.linkedin.com'') signin_page = agent.click home_page.links.text(''Sign in'') puts "\nSIGNIN PAGE"