From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-05-13T20:44:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Mechanize and Cookies

On 5/13/06, Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:46:32AM +0900, Patrick Hurley wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> Hey Patrick, it doesn't look like you were doing anything wrong.  It
> looks like google doesn't send a space after semicolons in the
> 'Set-Cookie' string, and the cookie parser couldn't handle that.  I
> fixed the problem, and it should be available in the next release.  If
> you need it before that, just check out the current release branch:
>
> svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/mechanize/branches/RB-0.4.5
>
> and build the gem:
>
> rake package
>
> If you run in to any troubles, just send mail to the mechanize-devel
> list:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=1453
>
> HTH
>
> --Aaron
>
>
>

Thanks so much
pth