From: Marcin Raczkowski <mailing.mr@...>
Date: 2008-02-04T09:51:22+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize get methods returns both ::File and ::Page

7stud -- wrote:
> Carl Bernardi wrote:
>> The page is html.  Below, I included the log.  It shows the page's 
>> content type to be "text/html" for the first few attempts and then the 
>> last attempt to be "text/plain".  
> 
> I'm not sure how showing me the log files is evidence that even though 
> the page says it is 'text/plain' that it really contains html.
> 
> 
>> All I need to know is how to get a 
>> page instead of a file either be extending Mechanize, creating a 
>> instance of WWW::Mechanize::Page with the body from the file object 
> 
> Page#new() takes a URI as an argument.  So it seems like you could save 
> the file, and then provide a URI with the file:// scheme and create a 
> new Page.

or - instead of doing that idiotic hack - you could use pluggable 
parasers - feature already built in into mechanize to force it to treat 
text/plain like html with simple one liner.

Or use more complex solution that i posted - that forces pluggable 
paraser only if you clearly state it for that request using get_html, 
and after that it cleans up after itself