From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T01:24:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Mechanize and Google API

On 10/8/07, Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use Mechanize to retrieve spreadsheets from Google Docs
> using the Google API. So far I got the ClientLogin to work, but I
> can't seem to be able to use the Auth token they give me back. This is
> what I have:

From my experience Mechanize is a bit low level, especially in this area.
You are expected to write the code yourself to handle, redirects,
authentication,
SSL etc.

You might want to try open-uri or Hpricot as well. But I think there is no
right-sized solution - you will still need to do a bit of code writing yourself.

BTW - you should check out the new RESTful Web Services book (O'Reilly).
In addition to just being an excellent book, it has a lot of practical advice
on HTTP clients and directly manipulating HTTP headers, which is I
suspect what you will ultimately need to do.