From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2008-10-14T15:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding mechanize lib

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:18:24PM +0900, Aman King wrote:
> It seems the set_header method has been dropped in mechanize 0.8.4 (or 
> maybe even before that?).
> 
> What's the alternative now for setting custom headers?

It depends.

You can do this:

  agent.get(:uri => 'http://example.com', :headers => { 'a' => 'b' })

Or, you can set a pre connect hook to handle them:

  agent.pre_connect_hooks << lambda { |params|
    params[:request]['a'] = 'b'
  }

Hope that helps.

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Aaron Patterson
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