Mechanize breaks on ASP page

Question

require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
login = agent.get('http://www.schoolnet.ch/DE/HomeDE.htm')
agent.click login.link_with text: /Login/

And I get Mechanize::UnsupportedSchemeError.

Answer 1

Mechanize did'nt support javascript but you can add search field to the form assign search term to it and submit the form using mechanize

form = page.forms.first
form.add_field! "Field_name here","BotM$ucUser$ucUser2Col$cmdLogin"
page = form.submit

Answer 2

The link in question runs a javascript function.

<a href="javascript:__doPostBack('BotM$ucUser$ucUser2Col$cmdLogin','')" id="BotM_ucUser_ucUser2Col_cmdLogin">Login</a>

Mechanize doesn't support javascript links. Someone else suggests using Harmony.

Check https://github.com/mynyml/harmony