From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T10:58:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Emulating Browser Session (like Curl)?


On Jun 12, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Joe Ruby wrote:

> I have a process that I want to emulate:
>
> - login (and remember cookies set)
> - access pages that require being logged in
>
> With Curl, it's pretty easy:
>
> curl -c cookies -d "username=joe&password=12345" secret.com/login
> curl -b cookies secret.com/dostuff
>
> I searched for Curl Ruby libraries and found:
>
> http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~matuyuki/ruby.html (0.0.2 alpha)
> http://rox-ruby.sourceforge.net/cms.php/curl (pre-alpha - May 2003)
>
> Any other options, or libraries? Is open-uri capable of something
> similar?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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>

Methinks you require WWW::Mechanize
http://www.ntecs.de/blog/Blog/WWW-Mechanize.rdoc