From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2005-05-26T06:31:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Browsing with Cookies

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 06:30, Jim Van Fleet wrote:
> I am writing an app that takes in some basic data and then scours some 
> known Internet locations for more data relevant to the input.
> 
> One of them relys on cookies to get the data in a form I can use. 
> Net::HTTP appears not to use cookies, even if you're inside the same 
> .start block.
> 
> Does open-uri offer cookies?  I was under the impression that it was 
> more of a wrapper.
> 
> Is there a way to provide a cookie?  I could likely synthesize the 
> information that the server was looking for.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim

I posted a solution to this as an example in the rails wiki; see

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/ExampleCookieJarHelper

and

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowToRenderProxiedPages

--MarkusQ