From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-05-13T03:46:32+09:00
Subject: Mechanize and Cookies

I am trying to access some google stuff (summer of code :-) which
requires that I am signed in - when I run the code below it says "Your
browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on"

Mechanize seems to support cookies, but I must be doing something wrong.

Thanks
pth

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require 'mechanize'

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new {|a| a.log = Logger.new(STDERR) }
page = agent.get('http://www.google.com/')

link = page.links.text(/sign\s*in/i).first
page = agent.click(link)
form = page.forms[0]

email = form.fields.find { |f| f.name =~ /email/i }
email.value = 'email addr'
passwd = form.fields.find { |f| f.name =~ /passwd/i }
passwd.value = 'pass word'

submit = form.buttons.find { |b| b.value =~ /sign\s*in/i }
page = agent.submit(form, submit)
puts page.body