From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T06:25:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding mechanize lib

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Andrew Cowan <icculus@gmdstudios.com> wrote:
> Thanks Shawn, I wish it did help. I need a way to set custom request
> headers, from what I can tell Mechanize doesn't have a public method for
> doing that, so I may likely have to revert to net/http instead. Was hoping I
> was wrong and was just missing something... ;)

I found this in the docs:

http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/

go to the CHANGELOG.txt file, and there you can find this:

0.6.4
[...]
    * Added protected method Mechanize#set_headers so that subclasses
can set custom headers.
rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7208&group_id=1453&atid=5712

If you follow the link to the tracker you can see an example:

Mechanize can now be subclassed to add any headers a user may
want.  For example:

  class A < WWW::Mechanize
    def set_headers(u, r, c)
      super(uri, request, cur_page)
      request.add_field('Cookie', 'name=Aaron')
      request
    end
  end

I haven't been able to test it, but it seems you can use this to
achieve what you want. Beware that in the example the params of the
method should actually be uri, request, cur_page instead of u,r,c.

Hope this helps,

Jesus.