From: Nathan Taylor-Hoover <onebitcipher@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T23:21:04+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize newbie

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Colin

This line here

form.vb_login_md5password = "password"

Shows the form password value as being an md5password.  Are you creating an
md5 hash out of your password before supplying it to mechanize?  If not then
I would assume that is the problem.

On 6/13/07, jfry <jeff.fry@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Colin, I can't tell you how to do it in mechanize, but I can say
> that what you are trying to do is super easy in Watir:
> http://openqa.org/watir
>
> Watir (Web Application Testing In Ruby) is primarily used for driving
> browser-based test automation, but it has a wonderful API that makes
> what you describe very easy. Originally the only choice of browser to
> drive was IE, but now the FireWatir and SafariWatir projects are
> getting strong as well.
>
> Best of luck, whatever solution you go with,
> Jeff
>
> On Jun 13, 2:53 pm, "Colin Summers" <blade...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, Ruby in general newbie, but I did the whole shovell project for
> > RoR, so I felt I was getting somewhere...
> >
> > I am fooling around trying to make a spider (scraper?) to pull content
> > off the Forum I read all the time so that I can read it offline.
> >
> > It seemed like mechanize is exactly what I want. But I try this:
> >
> > require 'rubygems'; require 'mechanize'
> >
> > agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
> > page = agent.get('http://dapo.org/forums/index.php')
> >
> > pp page
> >
> > puts "\n\n trying to login... \n\n"
> >
> > # Fill out the login form
> > form  = page.forms.first
> > form.vb_login_username = "username"
> > form.vb_login_md5password = "password"
> > form.do ="login"
> > form.s = ""
> >
> > page  = agent.submit(form)
> >
> > pp page
> >
> > # pull down a thread
> > page = agent.get('http://dapo.org/forums/archive/index.php?t-2293.html')
> >
> > pp page
> >
> > And it doesn't login (blank page for that last get). Clues?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Colin
>
>
>
>

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