Mechanize CHANGELOG

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

• New Features:

  • Added support for reading Mozilla cookie jars. Thanks Chris Riddoch!

  • Moving text, password, hidden, int to default. Thanks Tim Harper!

  • Mechanize#history_added callback for page loads. Thanks Tobi Reif!

  • Mechanize#scheme_handlers callbacks for handling unsupported schemes on links.

• Bug Fixes:

  • Ignoring scheme case bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470642

  • Not encoding tildes in uris. Thanks Bruno. [#19380]

  • Resetting request bodys when retrying form posts. Thanks Bruno. [#19379]

  • Throwing away keep alive connections on EPIPE and ECONNRESET.

  • Duplicating request headers when retrying a 401. Thanks Hiroshi Ichikawa.

  • Simulating an EOF error when a response length is bad. Thanks Tobias Gruetzmacher. rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19178&group_id=1453&atid=5711

  • Defaulting option tags to the inner text. rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19976&group_id=1453&atid=5709

  • Supporting blank strings for option values. rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=19975&group_id=1453&atid=5709

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

• Detecting single quotes in meta redirects.

• Adding pretty inspect for ruby versions > 1.8.4 (Thanks Joel Kociolek) rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=13150&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Fixed bug with file name in multipart posts rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=15594&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Posting forms relative to the originating page. Thanks Mortee.

• Added a FAQ rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=15772&group_id=1453&atid=5709

0.6.10

• Made digest authentication work with POSTs.

• Made sure page was HTML before following meta refreshes. rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12260&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Made sure that URLS with a host and no path would default to ’/’ for history purposes. rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12368&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Avoiding memory leaks with transact. Thanks Tobias Gruetzmacher! rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12057&group_id=1453&atid=5711

• Fixing a problem with # signs in the file name. Thanks Tobias Gruetzmacher! rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12510&group_id=1453&atid=5711

• Made sure that blank form values are submitted. rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12505&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Mechanize now respects the base tag. Thanks Stephan Dale. rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=12468&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Aliasing inspect to pretty_inspect. Thanks Eric Promislow. rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2007-July/000157.html

0.6.9

• Updating UTF-8 support for urls

• Adding AREA tags to the links list. rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2007-May/000140.html

• WWW::Mechanize#follow_meta_refresh will allow you to automatically follow meta refresh tags. [#10032]

• Adding x-gzip to accepted content-encoding. Thanks Simon Strandgaard rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=11167&group_id=1453&atid=5711

• Added Digest Authentication support. Thanks to Ryan Davis and Eric Hodel, you get a gold star!

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

• Copying headers to a hash to prevent memory leaks

• Speeding up page parsing

• Aliased fields to elements

• Adding If-Modified-Since header

• Added delete_field! to form. Thanks to Sava Chankov

• Updated uri escaping to support high order characters. Thanks to Henrik Nyh.

• Better handling relative URIs. Thanks to Henrik Nyh

• Now handles pipes in URLs rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7140&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Now escaping html entities in form fields. rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7563&group_id=1453&atid=5709

• Added MSIE 7.0 user agent string

0.6.4

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

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

• Added protected method Mechanize#set_headers so that subclasses can set custom headers. rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=7208&group_id=1453&atid=5712

• Aliased Page#referer to Page#page

• Fixed a bug when clicking relative urls rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-November/000035.html

• Fixing a bug when bad version or max age is passed to Cookie::parse rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-November/000033.html

• Fixing a bug with response codes. [#6526]

• Fixed bug [#6548]. Input type of ‘button’ was not being added as a button.

• Fixed bug [#7139]. REXML parser calls hpricot parser by accident

0.6.3

• Added keys and values methods to Form

• Added has_value? to Form

• Added a has_field? method to Form

• The add_field! method on Form now creates a field for you on the form. Thanks to Mat Schaffer for the patch. rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-November/000025.html

• Fixed a bug when form actions have html ecoded entities in them. rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-October/000019.html

• Fixed a bug when links or frame sources have html encoded entities in the href or src.

• Fixed a bug where ’#’ symbols are encoded rubyforge.org/forum/message.php?msg_id=14747

0.6.2

• Added a yield to Page#form so that dealing with forms can be more DSL like.

• Added the parsed page to the ResponseCodeError so that the parsed results can be accessed even in the event of an error. rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-September/000007.html

• Updated documentation (Thanks to Paul Smith)

0.6.1

• Added a method to Form called “submit”. Now forms can be submitted by calling a method on the form.

• Added a click method to links

• Added an REXML pluggable parser for backwards compatability. To use it, just do this:

   agent.pluggable_parser.html = WWW::Mechanize::REXMLPage
  

• Fixed a bug with referrers by adding a page attribute to forms and links.

• Fixed a bug where domain names were case sensitive. tenderlovemaking.com/2006/09/04/road-to-ruby-mechanize-060/#comment-53

• Fixed a bug with URI escaped links. rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-September/000002.html

• Fixed a bug when options in select lists don’t have a value. Thanks Dan Higham

  #5837

  Code in lib/mechanize/form_elements.rb is incorrect.

• Fixed a bug with loading text in to links. rubyforge.org/pipermail/mechanize-users/2006-September/000000.html

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 (brianellin@gmail.com) for: Added support for CA files, and support for 301 response codes

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