From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-07-04T03:13:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Likely bug in Mechanize 0.7.6

On Jul 3, 2008, at 01:32 AM, Just Another Victim of the Ambient  
Morality wrote:
>    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?

Did you file a ticket on the Mechanize bug tracker with the way to  
reproduce it including backtrace and so-forth?