From: mortee <mortee.lists@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T07:53:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Mechanize and Google API

Richard Conroy wrote:
> 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.

Just for the record, last time I checked, Mechanize *did* use Hpricot to
parse pages. AFAIK, you can even provide Mechainze with your own page
parser class before fetching the stuff.

mortee