From: anne001 <anne@...>
Date: 2007-07-22T21:40:04+09:00
Subject: mechanize to access https links

I would like to open and save to disk https tutorials which were
created with Flash i think.

To simplify, I login to the site with a webbrowser, so I don't need to
access a form. Just pages with links to the tutorials.

mechanize seems the tool to use from what I found out. I tried this
code found on this list:

require 'net/https'
require 'uri'

class HTTPS < Net::HTTP
   def initialize *a, &b
     super
     self.use_ssl = true
     self.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
     self.set_debug_output $stderr
   end
end

# the url is of the form
url = 'https://tutorials.siteofinterest.com/?page=tutorialView&tId=47'

uri = URI.parse url

HTTPS.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |https|
   response = https.post("#{uri.path}?#{uri.query}")
   puts response.body
end

-----error message --->
opening connection to tutorials.siteofinterest.com...
opened
opurl2.rb:18:in `post': wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)
(ArgumentError)

I checked with IRB, uri seems to do its parsing, finding the host, the
path and the arguments after the question mark.

How can I find out what the second argument is that I need to put in?
or How can I find out what post Safari sends when I click on the same
link?