From: prasannakate@...
Date: 2007-04-06T01:10:04+09:00
Subject: WWW::Mechanize issue when submitting multiple forms

Hi All,

I am using eruby and Mechanize to submit forms on a website. The first
form
has a "Accept Agreement" checkbox, when user checks this checkbox and
submits this form, another form shows up which is the actual input
form.

When using eruby and Mechanize, I get the first form, check the accept
checkbox and then get the second form and then populate the fields in
the
second form. But when I submit the second form, it shows a page
saying  "You
did not accept the agreement on first form". So basically the Accept
on
first form is not getting passed while submitting the second form.

here is what I am doing:

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page = agent.get("http://www.abc.com")
form = page.forms[1]         // get first form
form.checkboxes.name('accept').check    // accept agreement
page = agent.submit(form) // submit first form
nextform = page.forms[1]      //get next form
nextform.first_name = "myname"      // populate second form
nextform.last_name = "mylastname"
page = agent.submit(nextform) // submit second form
puts page.body

Does anyone know how can I get this to work ?

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Thanks,
Prasanna