Comments on: Road to Ruby Mechanize 0.6.0 http://tenderlovemaking.com/2006/09/04/road-to-ruby-mechanize-060/ The act of making love, tenderly. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:47:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: J. Fister http://tenderlovemaking.com/2006/09/04/road-to-ruby-mechanize-060/#comment-53 J. Fister Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:37:11 +0000 http://tenderlovemaking.com/2006/09/04/road-to-ruby-mechanize-060/#comment-53 <p>The new Mechanize is great (and so were the older versions), but I did find a bug in the cookies today after pulling my hair out for 3 hours. I would post this to the developer mailing list, but it seems to be not functioning, or is just very slow. Anyhow...In CookieJar#cookies(url), all of the cookies are retrieved whose domain matches that of the given URL. The problem is that this match is being done in a case-sensitive way, when (obviously) domain names are not case sensitive. I haven't tested to see if this fix works, but I bet you'll just need to change the following... if url.host =~ /#{domain}$/ to if url.host =~ /#{domain}$/i</p> <p>Thanks again for creating this fabulous web scraper!</p> The new Mechanize is great (and so were the older versions), but I did find a bug in the cookies today after pulling my hair out for 3 hours. I would post this to the developer mailing list, but it seems to be not functioning, or is just very slow. Anyhow…In CookieJar#cookies(url), all of the cookies are retrieved whose domain matches that of the given URL. The problem is that this match is being done in a case-sensitive way, when (obviously) domain names are not case sensitive. I haven’t tested to see if this fix works, but I bet you’ll just need to change the following…
if url.host =~ /#{domain}$/
to
if url.host =~ /#{domain}$/i

Thanks again for creating this fabulous web scraper!

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