From: Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality <ihatespam@...>
Date: 2008-07-04T05:21:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Likely bug in Mechanize 0.7.6


"Eric Hodel" <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote in message 
news:43808E54-F129-4793-810A-489ADA6F9010@segment7.net...
> 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?

    Considering how I have no idea what I'm doing... no, I haven't.  Do I do 
this at RubyForge? ...under "Submit New?"