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Mechanize CHANGELOG ↑

HEAD ↑

  • New Features

    • Add header reference methods to Mechanize::File so that a reponse object gets compatible with Net::HTTPResponse.

    • Mechanize#click accepts a string to click a button/link in the current page. It works as expected when not passed a string.

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Fixed a bug where Referer is not sent when accessing a relative URI starting with “http”.

    • Fix handling of Meta Refresh with relative paths. GH #39

1.0.0 ↑

  • New Features:

    • An optional verb may be passed to Mechanize#get GH #26

    • The WWW constant is deprecated. Switch to the top level constant Mechanize

    • SelectList#option_with and options_with for finding options

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Rescue errors from bogus encodings

    • 7bit content-encoding support. Thanks sporkmonger! GH #2

    • Fixed a bug with iconv conversion. Thanks awesomeman! GH #9

    • meta redirects outside the head are not followed. GH #13

    • Form submissions work with nil page encodings. GH #25

    • Fixing default values with serialized cookies. GH #3

    • Checkboxes and fields are sorted by page appearance before submitting. #11

0.9.3 ↑

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Do not apply encoding if encoding equals ‘none’ Thanks Akinori MUSHA!

    • Fixed Page#encoding= when changing the value from or to nil. Made it return the assigned value while at it. (Akinori MUSHA)

    • Custom request headers may be supplied WWW::Mechanize#request_headers RF #24516

    • HTML Parser may be set on a per instance level WWW::Mechanize#html_parser RF #24693

    • Fixed string encoding in ruby 1.9. RF #2433

    • Rescuing Zlib::DataErrors (Thanks Kelley Reynolds)

    • Fixing a problem with frozen SSL objects. RF #24950

    • Do not send a referer on meta refresh. RF #24945

    • Fixed a bug with double semi-colons in Content-Disposition headers

    • Properly handling cookies that specify a path. RF #25259

0.9.2 / 2009/03/05 ↑

  • New Features:

    • Mechanize#submit and Form#submit take arbitrary headers(thanks penguincoder)

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Fixed a bug with bad cookie parsing

    • Form::RadioButton#click unchecks other buttons (RF #24159)

    • Fixed problems with Iconv (RF #24190, RF #24192, RF #24043)

    • POST parameters should be CGI escaped

    • Made Content-Type match case insensitive (Thanks Kelly Reynolds)

    • Non-string form parameters work

0.9.1 2009/02/23 ↑

  • New Features:

    • Encoding may be specified for a page: Page#encoding=

  • Bug Fixes:

    • m17n fixes. ありがとう konn!

    • Fixed a problem with base tags. ありがとう Keisuke

    • HEAD requests do not record in the history

    • Default encoding to ISO-8859-1 instead of ASCII

    • Requests with URI instances should not be polluted RF #23472

    • Nonce count fixed for digest auth requests. Thanks Adrian Slapa!

    • Fixed a referer issue with requests using a uri. RF #23472

    • WAP content types will now be parsed

    • Rescued poorly formatted cookies. Thanks Kelley Reynolds!

0.9.0 ↑

  • Deprecations

    • WWW::Mechanize::List is gone!

    • Mechanize uses Nokogiri as it’s HTML parser but you may switch to Hpricot by using WWW::Mechanize.html_parser = Hpricot

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Nil check on page when base tag is used #23021

0.8.5 ↑

  • Deprecations

    • WWW::Mechanize::List will be deprecated in 0.9.0, and warnings have been added to help you upgrade.

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Stopped raising EOF exceptions on HEAD requests. ありがとう：HIRAKU Kuroda

    • Fixed exceptions when a logger is set and file:// requests are made.

    • Made Mechanize 1.9 compatible

    • Not setting the port in the host header for SSL sites.

    • Following refresh headers. Thanks Tim Connor!

    • Cookie Jar handles cookie domains containing ports, like ‘mydomain.com:443’ (Thanks Michal Ochman!)

    • Fixing strange uri escaping problems [#22604]

    • Making content-type determintation more robust. (thanks Han Holl!)

    • Dealing with links that are query string only. [#22402]

    • Nokogiri may be dropped in as a replacement.

      WWW::Mechanize.html_parser = Nokogiri::HTML

    • Making sure the correct page is added to the history on meta refresh.

      #22708

    • Mechanize#get requests no longer send a referer unless they are relative requests.

0.8.4 ↑

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Setting the port number on the host header.

    • Fixing Authorization headers for picky servers

0.8.3 ↑

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Making sure logger is set during SSL connections.

0.8.2 ↑

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Doh! I was accidentally setting headers twice.

0.8.1 ↑

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Fixed problem with nil pointer when logger is set

0.8.0 ↑

  • New Features:

    • Lifecycle hooks. Mechanize#pre_connect_hooks, Mechanize#post_connect_hooks

    • file:/// urls are now supported

    • Added Mechanize::Page#link_with, frame_with for searching for links using criteria.

    • Implementing PUT, DELETE, and HEAD requests

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Fixed an infinite loop when content-length and body length don’t match.

    • Only setting headers once

    • Adding IIS authentication support

0.7.8 ↑

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Fixed bug when receiving a 304 response (HTTPNotModified) on a page not cached in history.

    • #21428 Default to HTML parser for ‘application/xhtml+xml’ content-type.

    • Fixed an issue where redirects were resending posted data

0.7.7 ↑

  • New Features:

    • Page#form_with takes a criteria hash.

    • Page#form is changed to Page#form_with

    • Mechanize#get takes custom http headers. Thanks Mike Dalessio!

    • Form#click_button submits a form defaulting to the current button.

    • Form#set_fields now takes a hash. Thanks Tobi!

    • Mechanize#redirection_limit= for setting the max number of redirects.

  • Bug Fixes:

    • Added more examples. Thanks Robert Jackson.

    • #20480 Making sure the Host header is set.

    • #20672 Making sure cookies with weird semicolons work.

    • Fixed bug with percent signs in urls. d.hatena.ne.jp/kitamomonga/20080410/ruby_mechanize_percent_url_bug

    • #21132 Not checking for EOF errors on redirect

    • Fixed a weird gzipping error.

    • #21233 Smarter multipart boundry. Thanks Todd Willey!

    • #20097 Supporting meta tag cookies.

0.7.6 ↑

0.7.5 ↑

  • Fixed a bug when fetching files and not pages. Thanks Mat Schaffer!

0.7.4 ↑

  • doh!

0.7.3 ↑

  • Pages are now yielded to a blocks given to WWW::Mechanize#get

  • WWW::Mechanize#get now takes hash arguments for uri parameters.

  • WWW::Mechanize#post takes an IO object as a parameter and posts correctly.

  • Fixing a strange zlib inflate problem on windows

0.7.2 ↑

  • Handling gzipped responses with no Content-Length header

0.7.1 ↑

  • Added iPhone to the user agent aliases. [#17572]

  • Fixed a bug with EOF errors in net/http. [#17570]

  • Handling 0 length gzipped responses. [#17471]

0.7.0 ↑

  • Removed Ruby 1.8.2 support

  • Changed parser to lazily parse links

  • Lazily parsing document

  • Adding verify_callback for SSL requests. Thanks Mike Dalessio!

  • Fixed a bug with Accept-Language header. Thanks Bill Siggelkow.

0.6.11 ↑

0.6.10 ↑

0.6.9 ↑

0.6.8 ↑

  • Keep alive can be shut off now with WWW::Mechanize#keep_alive

  • Conditional requests can be shut off with WWW::Mechanize#conditional_requests

  • Monkey patched Net::HTTP#keep_alive?

  • #9877

    Moved last request time. Thanks Max Stepanov

  • Added WWW::Mechanize::File#save

  • Defaulting file name to URI or Content-Disposition

  • Updating compatability with hpricot

  • Added more unit tests

0.6.7 ↑

  • Fixed a bug with keep-alive requests

  • #9549

    fixed problem with cookie paths

0.6.6 ↑

  • Removing hpricot overrides

  • Fixed a bug where alt text can be nil. Thanks Yannick!

  • Unparseable expiration dates in cookies are now treated as session cookies

  • Caching connections

  • Requests now default to keep alive

  • #9434

    Fixed bug where html entities weren’t decoded

  • #9150

    Updated mechanize history to deal with redirects

0.6.5 ↑

0.6.4 ↑

  • Adding the “redirect_ok” method to Mechanize to stop mechanize from following redirects.

rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=6571&group_id=1453&atid=5712

0.6.3 ↑

0.6.2 ↑

0.6.1 ↑

0.6.0 ↑

  • Changed main parser to use hpricot

  • Made WWW::Mechanize::Page class searchable like hpricot

  • Updated WWW::Mechanize#click to support hpricot links like this: @agent.click (page/“a”).first

  • Clicking a Frame is now possible: @agent.click (page/“frame”).first

  • Removed deprecated attr_finder

  • Removed REXML helper methods since the main parser is now hpricot

  • Overhauled cookie parser to use WEBrick::Cookie

0.5.4 ↑

  • Added WWW::Mechanize#trasact for saving history state between in a transaction. See the EXAMPLES file. Thanks Johan Kiviniemi.

  • Added support for gzip compressed pages

  • Forms can now be accessed like a hash. For example, to set the value of an input field named ‘name’ to “Aaron”, you can do this:

    form['name'] = "Aaron"

    Or to get the value of a field named ‘name’, do this:

    puts form['name']

  • File uploads will now read the file specified in FileUpload#file_name

  • FileUpload can use an IO object in FileUpload#file_data

  • Fixed a bug with saving files on windows

  • Fixed a bug with the filename being set in forms

0.5.3 ↑

  • Mechanize#click will now act on the first element of an array. So if an array of links is passed to WWW::Mechanize#click, the first link is clicked. That means the syntax for clicking links is shortened and still supports selecting a link. The following are equivalent:

    agent.click page.links.first
agent.click page.links

  • Fixed a bug with spaces in href’s and get’s

  • Added a tick, untick, and click method to radio buttons so that radiobuttons can be “clicked”

  • Added a tick, untick, and click method to check boxes so that checkboxes can be “clicked”

  • Options on Select lists can now be “tick”ed, and “untick”ed.

  • Fixed a potential bug conflicting with rails. Thanks Eric Kolve

  • Updated log4r support for a speed increase. Thanks Yinon Bentor

  • Added inspect methods and pretty printing

0.5.2 ↑

  • Fixed a bug with input names that are nil

  • Added a warning when using attr_finder because attr_finder will be deprecated in 0.6.0 in favor of method calls. So this syntax:

    @agent.links(:text => 'foo')

    should be changed to this:

    @agent.links.text('foo')

  • Added support for selecting multiple options in select tags that support multiple options. See WWW::Mechanize::MultiSelectList.

  • New select list methods have been added, select_all, select_none.

  • Options for select lists can now be “clicked” which toggles their selection, they can be “selected” and “unselected”. See WWW::Mechanize::Option

  • Added a method to set multiple fields at the same time, WWW::Mechanize::Form#set_fields. Which can be used like so:

    form.set_fields( :foo => 'bar', :name => 'Aaron' )

0.5.1 ↑

  • Fixed bug with file uploads

  • Added performance tweaks to the cookie class

0.5.0 ↑

  • Added pluggable parsers. (Thanks to Eric Kolve for the idea)

  • Changed namespace so all classes are under WWW::Mechanize.

  • Updating Forms so that fields can be used as accessors (Thanks Gregory Brown)

  • Added WWW::Mechanize::File as default object used for unknown content types.

  • Added ‘save_as’ method to Mechanize::File, so any page can be saved.

  • Adding ‘save_as’ and ‘load’ to CookieJar so that cookies can be saved between sessions.

  • Added WWW::Mechanize::FileSaver pluggable parser to automatically save files.

  • Added WWW::Mechanize::Page#title for page titles

  • Added OpenSSL certificate support (Thanks Mike Dalessio)

  • Removed support for body filters in favor of pluggable parsers.

  • Fixed cookie bug adding a ‘/’ when the url is missing one (Thanks Nick Dainty)

0.4.7 ↑

  • Fixed bug with no action in forms. Thanks to Adam Wiggins

  • Setting a default user-agent string

  • Added house cleaning to the cookie jar so expired cookies don’t stick around.

  • Added new method WWW::Form#field to find the first field with a given name. (thanks to Gregory Brown)

  • Added WWW::Mechanize#get_file for fetching non text/html files

0.4.6 ↑

  • Added support for proxies

  • Added a uri field to WWW::Link

  • Added a error class WWW::Mechanize::ContentTypeError

  • Added image alt text to link text

  • Added an visited? method to WWW::Mechanize

  • Added Array#value= which will set the first value to the argument. That allows syntax as such: form.fields.name(‘q’).value = ‘xyz’ Before it was like this: form.fields.name(‘q’).first.value = ‘xyz’

0.4.5 ↑

  • Added support for multiple values of the same name

  • Updated build_query_string to take an array of arrays (Thanks Michal Janeczek)

  • Added WWW::Mechanize#body_filter= so that response bodies can be preprocessed

  • Added WWW::Page#body_filter= so that response bodies can be preprocessed

  • Added support for more date formats in the cookie parser

  • Fixed a bug with empty select lists

  • Fixing a problem with cookies not handling no spaces after semicolons

0.4.4 ↑

  • Fixed error in method signature, basic_authetication is now basic_auth

  • Fixed bug with encoding names in file uploads (Big thanks to Alex Young)

  • Added options to the select list

0.4.3 ↑

  • Added syntactic sugar for finding things

  • Fixed bug with HttpOnly option in cookies

  • Fixed a bug with cookie date parsing

  • Defaulted dropdown lists to the first element

  • Added unit tests

0.4.2 ↑

  • Added support for iframes

  • Made mechanize dependant on ruby-web rather than narf

  • Added unit tests

  • Fixed a bunch of warnings

0.4.1 ↑

  • Added support for file uploading

  • Added support for frames (Thanks Gabriel)

  • Added more unit tests

  • Fixed some bugs

0.4.0 ↑

  • Added more unit tests

  • Added a cookie jar with better cookie support, included expiration of cookies and general cookie security.

  • Updated mechanize to use built in net/http if ruby version is new enough.

  • Added support for meta refresh tags

  • Defaulted form actions to ‘GET’

  • Fixed various bugs

  • Added more unit tests

  • Added a response code exception

  • Thanks to Brian Ellin ([email protected]) for: Added support for CA files, and support for 301 response codes