How to handle cookie with ruby

ruby-talk
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Hi all, I dont know how to handle cookie with ruby.
the problem is I want to fetch content from a website which need login
first.
I use the http.post to do the login and seemed works well, but when I went
to the index page, still I got the login first message.
so, any suggestions?

---------------------below is my code---------------------------
require 'net/http'
require 'cgi'
require 'iconv'

def fetch_content
  Net::HTTP.start ('domain' ) do |server|
    id = CGI.escape("id" )
    passwd = CGI.escape("pw" )
    params = "id=#{id}&pwpwd=#{passwd}"
    resp = server.post2('/login.php?' , params,headers)

    # I got a 200 OK, the resp.body shows that the login is successful

    params = ""
    resp = server.post2('/index.php' , params,headers)
    # after checking the resp.body , the index page still says I need to
login
  end
end

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leon du wrote:

Hi all, I dont know how to handle cookie with ruby.
the problem is I want to fetch content from a website which need login
first.
I use the http.post to do the login and seemed works well, but when I went
to the index page, still I got the login first message.
so, any suggestions?

I guess you should try e.g. Mechanize:

http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/

which is designed for just this kind of thing.

3

thanks a lot, mechanize seemed to be the solution :slight_smile:

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2007/9/30, mortee <mortee.lists@kavemalna.hu>:

leon du wrote:
> Hi all, I dont know how to handle cookie with ruby.
> the problem is I want to fetch content from a website which need login
> first.
> I use the http.post to do the login and seemed works well, but when I
went
> to the index page, still I got the login first message.
> so, any suggestions?

I guess you should try e.g. Mechanize:

http://mechanize.rubyforge.org/mechanize/

which is designed for just this kind of thing.