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I thought that mechanize follows redirection by default ... by my script ends at the redirection page. How can I handle this?
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page = agent.get("http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/index.php")
login_form = page.form_with(:action => 'login.php?do=login')
login_form['vb_login_username'] = 'user name'
login_form['vb_login_password'] = ''
login_form['vb_login_md5password_utf'] = 'md5 hash from the password'
login_form['vb_login_md5password'] = 'md5 hash from the password'
page = agent.submit login_form
#Display welcome message if logged in
puts page.parser.xpath("/html/body/div/table/tr/td[2]/div/div").xpath('text()').to_s.strip
output = File.open("login.html", "w") {|f| f.write(page.parser.to_html) }
redirection page html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></head>
<body>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="2; URL=http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/index.php">
</noscript>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function exec_refresh()
{
window.status = "Redirecting..." + myvar;
myvar = myvar + " .";
var timerID = setTimeout("exec_refresh();", 100);
if (timeout > 0)
{
timeout -= 1;
}
else
{
clearTimeout(timerID);
window.status = "";
window.location = "http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/index.php";
}
}
var myvar = "";
var timeout = 20;
exec_refresh();
//-->
</script><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.6.12">
<meta name="keywords" content="vbulletin,forum,bbs,discussion,jelsoft,bulletin board,hacks,modifications,addons,articles,programming,site review">
<meta name="description" content="This is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ .">
<!-- CSS Stylesheet --><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style-befeb917-00023.css" id="vbulletin_css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/blue.css" id="blue">
<!-- / CSS Stylesheet --><script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var SESSIONURL = "";
var SECURITYTOKEN = "c1e3de2fd54e2938c4ab1e80ae448aa6bbea25b2";
var IMGDIR_MISC = "images/misc";
var vb_disable_ajax = parseInt("0", 10);
// -->
</script><script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=3612"></script><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="vBulletin.org Forum RSS Feed" href="external.php?type=RSS2">
<!-- VB.ORG --><!-- The line above sets the script var and must be left in --><script type="text/javascript">
<!--
script = "login";
userid = "0";
forumid = "";
threadid = "";
authorid = "";
// -->
</script><script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vborg_miscactions.js?v=3612"></script><!-- /VB.ORG --><title>vBulletin.org Forum</title>
<div id="container" style="border-width:0;width:950px">
<br><br><br><br><form action="http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/index.php" method="post" name="postvarform">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat">Redirecting...</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel">
<blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Thank you for logging in, my username.</strong></p>
<p class="smallfont"><a href="http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/index.php">Click here if your browser does not automatically redirect you.</a></p>
<div> </div>
</blockquote>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<br><br><br><br>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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There is an option in mechanize for that. Mechanize does not follow meta refreshes by default, we can set that option though.
agent.follow_meta_refresh = true
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