From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam@...>
Date: 2008-07-03T17:32:40+09:00
Subject: Likely bug in Mechanize 0.7.6

    I was trying to use Mechanize when it kept throwing an exception at me. 
After trying to debug it, I found this code snippet starting at line 441 of 
mechanize.rb:


url = ((base && base.uri && base.uri.absolute?) ?
    base.uri :
    cur_page.uri) + url
url = cur_page.uri + url


    Now, without knowing anything about what this method does or how 
mechanize even works, I'm pretty sure that this is a bug.  The method 
literally crashes when trying to call method "uri" of the variable "base." 
Commenting out the first assignment seems to allow the code to work 
(although I don't understand how).  Hopefully, mechanize doesn't depend on 
any side effects of the various methods called in the first assignment.
    Does anyone know of a proper fix to this bug?
    Thank you...