From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T23:58:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] WWW::Mechanize alike in Ruby

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:32:30 +0900, Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@byu.edu> wrote:
> 
>>On 22:04 Tue 18 Jan     , Michael Neumann wrote:
>>
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>I just read the Web-testing thread in the latest "Ruby Weekly News" and want
>>>to tell the interested people that I hacked up a little library which I use
>>>in some small projects. Web::Unit didn't work for my purposes, and it was
>>>easier to reinvent the wheel than to hack Web::Unit (of course I first tried
>>>to hack it...).
>>>
>>>It depends on narf-lib (>= 0.6.3) more exactly, it's version of htmltools, and
>>>requires Ruby-current (due to limitations in the net/http library of 1.8.2).
>>
>>Isn't 1.8.2 the current Ruby? Or does "Ruby-current" mean something
>>other than what I'm understanding it to mean?
> 
> 
> If it isn't 1.9 (CVS HEAD), then it's probably a post 1.8.2 release
> stable snapshot.

I'm not sure whether it's in the stable branch. Just look for the 
get_field method, which must be present (net/http*).

Regards,

   Michael