similar to: form submit debugging

I poked around the web a little and didn''t run across how to use https when it asks for certificate validation. I''m trying to connect to devices that don''t have valid certificates, and in this case, I don''t care if they are or not. So when I use my browser to ge to the site, firefox asks me to allow the certificate, then one other question, then I get the

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"

hi there, I''m not sure if it is better to use the ml or the forum so I ended to post on both ... I''m trying to login into a page that is using javascript to set a cookie: <script language="JavaScript"> {text "\n" " \n" " \n" " document.cookie = ''vhp_js=v995105608h85339294p;path=/;domain=.venere.com;expire=0'';

Hello, I am using Mechanize to post a form to a website. When I do this by hand in my browser the response takes about 35s to come back (it''s a long page full of tables and graphics). When I do this with Mechanize, the server starts to respond and then appears to hang. The obvious conclusion is that my code is wrong but I am reasonably sure that I haven''t altered it

hi, i''m just starting to work with this incredible tool... but i got a first problem with the login process i''m logging on my app like this : ------ @agent = WWW::Mechanize.new { |a| a.log = Logger.new("mech.log") } @agent.user_agent_alias = ''Mac Safari'' @page = @agent.get("http://myappAdress/") @form = @page.forms.first

All, Another easy question. In Hpricot, on a doc that I am using, I can do a .to_html method and retrieve the entire page. However, this doesn''t seem to work in Mechanize. My goal is to the text of the page and put it into a database to make it searchable with ferret (using the acts_as_ferret plugin in Rails). Does anyone have a good suggestion short of iterating over the entire

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)

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 having some trouble downloading a .csv file from a particular website. The file isn''t part of a url, you need to click on a link in order to get the file sent. I don''t know how to get mechanize to correctly identify that. Here is the link to the file I''m trying to retrieve: <td style="vertical-align: bottom; text-align: center;">

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

I haven''t spent the time to get a proper test case for this yet, but there appears to be a bug in the basic_auth code for mechanize 0.6.9. I''ve attached a CSV (from Charles) that illustrates the problem. Basically when running with basic_auth, there''s a failed request that''s followed up by a successful request. That last POST is a agent.submit(form)

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.

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'' )

This post from Aaron Patterson back in 2009 seems to be pretty definite about how to use Mechanize in a thread-safe way, but I thought I would revisit the question because there are several posts on StackOverflow since then that would seem to contradict it (of course, I trust Aaron''s answer more than random answers on StackOverlfow, but just in case I thought I would confirm it). It is

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/

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

Hi, I am using mechanize for a while now. Works great. But at the moment I have a small problem using it. The problematic file is attached. In that PHP-File you will see a formular, but mechanize doesn''t recognize it. Could somebody check this? Thanks, Bodo -- http://www.tvbrowser.org http://www.wannawork.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

Hello I am trying to fill in a form using WWW::Mechanize. I can fill in 2 of the 3 fields but one is giving me a problem. The name of this field is "name" when I use the following bit of code, it seems to change the name of the form, not the value of the field. The part of original page after pretty printing {forms #<WWW::Mechanize::Form {name "wp_pers_form"}

Hello. I have run into a new form that contains multiple submit buttons. Currently my code for working with forms looks just like this example. require ''rubygems'' require ''mechanize'' a = WWW::Mechanize.new { |agent| agent.user_agent_alias = ''Mac Safari'' } a.get(''http://google.com/'') do |page|

Hi, I''m working to scrape and save some ebooks. Mechanize has been wonderful so far. The link I''m having trouble with is this one. http://www.webscription.net/SendZip.aspx?SKU=0671578499&ProductID=379&format=H When I click that in the browser it saves it to a file named H_1632.zip. How do I get that name from the page. I suspect to save this to a file I would just do