From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T07:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize to access https links

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:25:02AM +0900, anne001 wrote:
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'mechanize'
> 
> mech = WWW::Mechanize.new
> page =
> mech.get('https://tutorials.siteofinterest.com/?
> page=tutorialView&tId=47')
> 
> This code does return a page, but not the page I wanted. So there must
> be something missing, a cookie or something which indicates I have
> logged in.
> 
> If I try to access one of the links in ruby
> mech.get('http://tutorials.siteofinterest.com/tutorials/Intro/Intface/
> Intface.html')
> I get an error, please provide username and password
> while if I paste the http address in safari, it opens the tutorial
> page. How do I find out what the browser is doing to satisfy the
> tutorial web page server?

Make sure to clear all your cookies before you do that.  I recommend
getting Firefox, clearing your cookies, and using LiveHTTPHeaders.

  http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Hope that helps.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/