From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-07-09T23:43:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Does anyone have any small example code on how to use http-acces2?


On Jul 9, 2007, at 5:56 AM, Kp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use the http-access2 gem to perform a basic set of  
> login / get
> page operations on a website, from the point of view of checking site
> performance. Since documentation of this library seems to be  
> extremely hard
> to find, could someone who has used this library in the past please  
> send me
> a basic 'howto' of the basic operations?
>
> Precisely what I want to do is:
> 1. Login to webpage (no https required) by sending username and  
> password
> strings in a POST
> 2. Get the body of the webpage that loads, also capturing the  
> session cookie
> to keep the session alive between requests
> 3. Send a post to the server that asks for the page to be updated
> 4. Get the updated page
> 5. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 multiple times
> 6. Check out on an average how much time it takes for a single page  
> reload.
>
> I'd be really grateful if someone could point me along, since this  
> library
> seems to have everything I need to get things working, except I  
> can't find
> out how :)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Kp.
>
>


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