From: Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T12:51:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Emulating Browser Session (like Curl)?

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:47:06AM +0900, 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?

Check out WWW::Mechanize:

http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/

Or just install it: 'gem install mechanize'

--Aaron