From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2007-06-11T17:08:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Having problem using Mechanize to log into Google Account

Kevin,

> The values of the Email and Passwd fields remain empty.  So it appears
> to me that the code fails to login.  What more should I do?  Please
> help!

Mechanize can not handle Javascript, so it won't work this way. You have 
two options here:

1) Scrape the non-JS page - check this article:

http://schf.uc.org/articles/2007/02/14/scraping-gmail-with-mechanize-and-hpricot

2) Use Watir (FireWatir if you are not on win32) which can handle 
JavaScript.

btw, posting mechanize related questions to the mechanize list 
(mechanize-users@rubyforge.org) can yield better response time/quality.

HTH,
Peter
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